ANISAKIDAE LARVAE FOUND IN MARINE FISHES AND SQUIDS FROM THE GULF OF TONGKING, THE EAST CHINA SEA AND THE YELLOW SEA

Abstract

Marine fishes and squids caught in the Gulf of Tongking, the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea were dissected, and many Anisakidae larvae were found in them. The larvae of Anisakis simplex (Anisakis Type I larvae), the most important causative agent of anisakiasis, was found in about 30% of fishes and squids caught in the Gulf of Tongking and in about 60% of those caught in the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. Larvae belonging to three other genera than Anisakis — Raphidascaris or Raphidascaroides, Hysterothylacium, and Terranova (Cannon Type I) —were also detected.