Abstract
Many protists specifically parasitize marine organisms, and some of them cause diseases in economically important fish, shellfish or other invertebrates. In this chapter, we give general accounts of considerable protistan parasites for the fishery industry with their impacts and control measures, if any. Parasites of fish include amoebae, ichthyosporea, flagellates, X-cells with an unknown taxonomic position, and ciliates, and those of invertebrates include Marteilia and Perkinsus for shellfish, and a kinetoplastid for edible ascidians.
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The authors thank the following scientists for providing the photos and diagram used in this chapter: Mr. D. Nakano, Fukui Prefectural Fisheries Experimental Station, Japan; Dr. K. Hatai, Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University, Japan; Dr. S. Urawa, Hokkaido National Fisheries Research Institute, Japan; Mr. S. Tanaka, Mie Prefecture Fisheries Research Institute, Japan; Dr. M. Ototake, National Research Institute of Aquaculture, Japan; Dr. Akira Kumagai, Miyagi Prefecture Fisheries Technology Institute, Japan; and Dr. Susan Bower, Pacific Biological Station, Canada.
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Yokoyama, H., Itoh, N., Ogawa, K. (2015). Fish and Shellfish Diseases Caused by Marine Protists. In: Ohtsuka, S., Suzaki, T., Horiguchi, T., Suzuki, N., Not, F. (eds) Marine Protists. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55130-0_22
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