Trichosomoididae Hall 1916

Family TRICHOSOMOIDIDAE Hall, 1916 Preamble: Conboy & Speare (2002) speculated that Huffmanela - type eggs found in the skin of various species of Sebastes from coastal British Columbia might represent a new species. Indeed, Moravec, Conboy & Speare (2005) subsequently re-examined histologically the same rockfish material and recovered two complete males, three complete females and worm fragments representing a new species, namely, H. canadensis. The nematode has commercial significance because infected rockfish with so-called “black mould” in the skin are downgraded in the market.
Published as part of Arai, Hisao P. & Smith, John W., 2016, Guide to the Parasites of Fishes of Canada Part V: Nematoda, pp. 1-274 in Zootaxa 4185 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4185.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/165530
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