Table 3.
Prevalence of Blastodinium spp. in different copepod hosts.
| Parasite | Host | Prevalence(%) | Location | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blastodinium crassum | Paracalanus parvus | 1.5 | W Mediterranean Sea | 1 |
| B. contortum | Subeucalanus subtenuis* | 6–12 | SE Pacific Ocean | 2 |
| P. parvus | 0–3.9 | W Mediterranean Sea | 6 | |
| B. hyalinum | Calanus finmarchicus | 3.7–66 | North Sea | 3 |
| Pseudocalanus elongatus | 3.8–60 | North Sea | 3 | |
| P. elongatus | 0.3–20.5 | North Sea | 4 | |
| Paraeuchaeta antarctica+ | 6.6 | Weddel Sea | 5 | |
| B. mangini | Oncaea cf. scottodicarloi | 0–17 | W Mediterranean Sea | 6 |
| Farranula rostrata | 10 | W Mediterranean Sea | 1 | |
| B. navicula | Corycaeus giesbrechti | 20–30 | W Mediterranean Sea | 1 |
| B. oviforme | Oithona spp. | 0–3 | W Mediterranean Sea | 6 |
| B. spinulosum | P. parvus | 0.4–0.7 | W Mediterranean Sea | 1 |
| Clausocalanus spp. | 0.9 | W Mediterranean Sea | 1 | |
| Blastodium spp. | P. parvus | 0.4 | W Mediterranean Sea | 7 |
| Calanoida | 33# | E Mediterranean Sea | 8 | |
| Corycaeidae | 51# | E Mediterranean Sea | 8 | |
| Oithonidae | <2# | E Mediterranean Sea | 8 | |
| Oncaeidae | <2# | E Mediterranean Sea | 8 |
*, The parasite was presumably B. contortum; +, the parasite was presumable B. hyalinum; #, based on DNA-stain screening.
1, Chatton (1920); 2, Pasternak et al. (1984); 3, Vane (1952); 4, Cattley (1948); 5, Øresland (1991); 6, Skovgaard and Saiz (2006); 7, Ianora et al. (1987); 8, Alves-de-Souza et al. (2011).