ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Zoosporic Fungi Growing on Eggs
of Coregonus lavaretus holsatus Thienemann, 1916
from Lake Wdzydze in Kaszuby
B. Czeczuga*, B. Kiziewicz, A. Godlewska
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Department of General Biology, Medical University, Kilińskiego 1, 15-089 Białystok, Poland
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2004;13(4):355-359
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ABSTRACT
The authors investigated fungal communities associated with eggs of Coregonus lavaretus holsatus
species Lake Wdzydze in Kaszuby. A total of 15 fungus species were found to grow on the studied eggs:
Achlya americana, A. oblongata, A. treleaseana, Aphanomyces frigidophilus, A. irregularis, A. parasiticus,
Aplanes androgynus, Saprolegnia ferax, S. parasitica, S. salmonis, S. shikotsuensis, Pythium aquatile, P.
pulchrum, P. thalassium, and P. torulosum. Worth a special note was the finding of Aphanomyces frigidophilus
and Saprolegnia salmonis, new to Polish waters. The results obtained may be important to ichthyopathologists,
because 8 of the above-mentioned fungi are known as necrotrophs or parasites of fishes.