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Infection Status of Todarodes pacificus (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) with Anisakid Larvae in the Markets from Jumungin (주문진 어시장 살오징어(Todarodes pacificus)의 아니사키스 유충 감염상)

  • 전계식;김세화
    • The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.55-57
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    • 1996
  • A total of 248 specimens of Todarodes pacificus were purchased from the Jumungin fishery market at the East Sea area two times during the period from November 1 to December 30, 1995. Samples were examined for their infection status with larvae anisakid. Anisakid larvae were collected from muscle, viscera and omentum. One hundred sixteen larval anisakids sorted from 34 specimens of T. pacificus (13.7% of infection rate) ranged from 13.5 to 29.5 mm in their body length. They were classified based on morphological and morphometric observations as follows; Anisakis type I larvae (68 larvae, 58.6%: positive rate), Contracaecum type A (5, 4.3%), Anisakis type II (17, 14.5%), Contracaecum type D (8, 7.0%) and unknown type (18, 15.5%).

A Catalogue of the Mollusks of Jeju Island, South Korea

  • Noseworthy, Ronald G.;Lim, Na-Rae;Choi, Kwang-Sik
    • The Korean Journal of Malacology
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.65-104
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    • 2007
  • This catalogue is the result of a four-year survey of the mollusks of Jeju Island, the southernmost island in the Republic of Korea. Forty-eight survey stations were visited, with a total of 82 specific localities being sampled. Literature records were also obtained. Local and world distribution of each species is included. This survey reports a total of 1,072 mollusk species and subspecies; 1,015 marine and 57 land and freshwater. There are 812 gastropods, of which 755 are either entirely marine or have marine affinities. The best represented of the marine families are the Pyramidellidae, Trochidae, and Ovulidae. There are 225 bivalves, none being freshwater species, with the Veneridae, Mytilidae, and Arcidae having the largest number of species. Among the smaller classes there are sixteen Cephalopoda, eleven Polyplacophora, and eight Scaphopoda. Compared to mainland Korea, Jeju Island has a rather small terrestrial mollusk fauna and a depauperate freshwater one, with mainly Palearctic connections. The Helixarionidae and Bradybaenidae are the largest terrestrial families. The marine faunal affinities with the neighboring Japonic and Indo-West Pacific provinces are also discussed, revealing that this island's mollusk fauna is a blend of warm-temperate and subtropical-tropical species.

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Spawning and Hatching of Octopus minor (낙지 (Octopus minor)의 산란과 부화)

  • Kim, Dong-Soo;Kim, Jae-Man
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.243-247
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    • 2007
  • We investigated the reproductive behavior of Octopus minor, order Octopoda, class Cephalopoda under laboratory conditions. Each mature female octopus was kept in an aquarium with a plastic tube for shelter, and one mature male was introduced for the purpose of copulation. Before spawning, the female coated the roof of the shelter with a light-green material, upon which it then fixed its eggs one by one. This spawning behavior lasted 1 to 3 days. Fertilized females spawned 54 eggs on average, ranging from 21 to 112 eggs at 72 to 98 days after copulation. The attached eggs were 18.1-19.0 mm in length, 5.0-6.1 mm in width, and 0.30-0.38 g in weight. The mother octopods did not feed; they attended to the eggs by using their arms to rub the egg surfaces and used their funnel to blow sediments off of the eggs. At water temperatures of $20.9-21.5^{\circ}C$, the fertilized eggs hatched within 73 to 90 days after being spawned. The effective cumulative water temperature was $1,569-1,892^{\circ}C$. At the end of incubation, the body weight of the mother octopods was reduced to approximately 56% of the initial weight, and most mother octopods died soon after the young hatched.

Feeding Habits of Red Sea Bream, Pagrus major in the Coastal Waters off Busan, Korea (부산 주변 해역에서 출현하는 참돔(Pagrus major)의 식성)

  • Huh, Sung-Hoi;Kim, Ha Won;Baeck, Gun Wook
    • Korean Journal of Ichthyology
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.216-222
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    • 2006
  • Feeding habits of Pagrus major collected in the coastal waters off Busan from January to December 2004 were studied. P. major ranged form 8.5 to 44.6 cm in standard length. P. major was a carnivore which consumed mainly hermit crabs, amphipods, crabs, shrimps, polychaetes, echinoderms, and fishes. Its diets included small quantities of gastropods, bivalves, stomatopods, cephalopods, cnidarians, and isopods. It showed ontogenetic changes in feeding habits. Small individuals (8~15 cm SL) preyed mainly on shrimps. However, individuals from 15 cm to 25 cm SL preyed mainly on hermit crabs and polychaetes. Individuals over 25 cm SL preyed mainly on fishes and echinoderms.

Feeding Habits of Hexagrammos otakii off the Yoesu Coast of Korea (여수 연안에서 서식하는 쥐노래미(Hexagrammos otakii)의 식성)

  • Jung, Jin Ho;Kim, Heeyong;Moon, Seong Yong
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.55 no.5
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    • pp.705-713
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    • 2022
  • The feeding habits of Hexagrammos otakii were studied by analyzing the stomach contents of 508 specimens collected from July 2009 to December 2010 off the Yeosu coast of Korea. The total length of the H. otakii specimens ranged from 10.7 to 41.5 cm. H. otakii was found to be a bottom-feeding carnivore that mainly consumed brachyura, amphipoda, but also sonsumed cephalopoda, pisces, anomura, polychaeta, and gastropoda. It was shown through relative importance analysis that the benthic share was 58.1% for brachyura, 24.5% for amphipoda, 7.5% for caridea, and 7.3% for pisces. Brachyura was the main prey item for H. otakii, occupying 35% of the stomach contents. The proportion of brachyura and amphipoda decreased with the growth of H. otakii, and their decrease paralleled the increased consumption of pisces. The shift in feeding habits to larger prey organisms with increasing fish size seems to be one of survival strategies to maximize net energy gain.

Contents of Heavy Metals in Marine Invertebrates from the Korean Coast (한국 연안산 해산 무척추동물의 중금속 함량)

  • Mok, Jong-Soo;Lee, Ka-Jeong;Shim, Kil-Bo;Lee, Tae-Seek;Song, Ki-Cheol;Kim, Ji-Hoe
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.39 no.6
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    • pp.894-901
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    • 2010
  • To measure the heavy metal contents of marine invertebrates, we collected 239 individuals representing 52 species from the eastern (Pohang), western (Gunsan), and southern (Tongyeong) coasts of Korea: 34 species of molluscan shellfish (Gastropoda and Bivalvia), 6 species of Cephalopoda, 8 species of Crustacea, and 4 other species. The mean levels of the heavy metals in the samples taken from the edible portion of each Gastropoda were high in the order of Zn ($21.471\;{\mu}g/g$), Cu ($4.115\;{\mu}g/g$), Mn ($0.868\;{\mu}g/g$), Ni ($0.254\;{\mu}g/g$), Pb ($0.238\;{\mu}g/g$), Cd ($0.154\;{\mu}g/g$), and Cr ($0.110\;{\mu}g/g$). The heavy metals in the Bivalvia were high in the order of Zn ($35.655\;{\mu}g/g$), Mn ($5.500\;{\mu}g/g$), Cu ($3.129\;{\mu}g/g$), Cd ($0.423\;{\mu}g/g$), Ni ($0.402\;{\mu}g/g$), Cr ($0.233\;{\mu}g/g$), and Pb ($0.232\;{\mu}g/g$). The heavy metals in the Cephalopoda were high in the order of Zn ($18.380\;{\mu}g/g$), Cu ($3.594\;{\mu}g/g$), Mn ($0.630\;{\mu}g/g$), Cr ($0.150\;{\mu}g/g$), Pb ($0.068\;{\mu}g/g$), Cd ($0.034\;{\mu}g/g$), and Ni ($0.030\;{\mu}g/g$). The heavy metals in the Crustacea were high in the order of Zn ($25.333\;{\mu}g$/g), Cu ($9.042\;{\mu}g/g$), Mn ($0.659\;{\mu}g/g$), Cr ($0.592\;{\mu}g/g$), Cd ($0.207\;{\mu}g/g$), Pb ($0.126\;{\mu}g/g$), and Ni ($0.094\;{\mu}g/g$). Therefore, the mean levels of the harmful heavy metals (Cd and Pb) in marine invertebrates were high in the order of Bivalvia>Crustacea=Gastropoda>Cephalopoda. The average daily intakes of the heavy metals from the fisheries products were as follows: Cd ($6.88\;{\mu}g$), Cr ($19.13\;{\mu}g$), Cu ($137.02\;{\mu}g$), Mn ($156.13\;{\mu}g$), Ni ($11.39\;{\mu}g$), Pb ($7.01\;{\mu}g$) and Zn ($1,025.94\;{\mu}g$). The average weekly intakes of Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn from the fisheries products were 11.47%, 0.46%, 3.27% and 1.71% respectively, as compared with PTWI (Provisional Tolerable Weekly Intakes) established by FAO/WHO Expert Committee for Food Safety Evaluation.

Anisakis Infection Relationship between finless porpoises, Neophocaena asiaeorientalis and Cephalopod in Korean Waters (두족류에 의한 상괭이의 아니사키스 감염)

  • Kim, Yeonghye;Lee, Young Ran;Park, Kyum Joon;An, Yong Rock;Kim, Hyun Woo;Kim, Doo Nam;An, Doohae
    • The Korean Journal of Malacology
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.295-298
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    • 2014
  • Finless porpoise is the one of porpoises in Korean waters that frequently observed in the coastal area. This study reported parasite infection cases of stranded finless porpoise, Neophocaena asiaeorientalis which was stranded on the Saemangeum Dyke on the west coast of Korea 21 May, 2012. The finless porpoise was male, and estimated at 8 years old. Parasites were found in abdominal cavity, skull and lung. The parasites were identified as nematode, trematoda and lungworm. Nematoda in abdominal cavity was Crassicauda sp. Trematoda found in the skull was indentified Nasitrema sp. Lungworm in lung seemed one of genus Pseudaliids. Anisakis spp. has not been found.

Feeding Habits of the Sandfish, Arctoscopus japonicus in the East Sea, Korea (한국 동해에서 채집된 도루묵(Arctoscopus japonicus)의 식성)

  • Lee, Hae Won;Kang, Yong Joo;Huh, Sung-Hoi;Baeck, Gun Wook
    • Korean Journal of Ichthyology
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.44-50
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    • 2007
  • The feeding habits of sandfish, Arctoscopus japonicus were studied by examining the stomach contents of 2,115 specimens collected between April 2003 and March 2004 in the East Sea of Korea. The standard length (SL) of the specimens ranged from 9.8 to 22.9 cm. The main prey items of A. japonicus were amphipods, mysids, cephalopods and fishes. They showed ontogenetic changes in feeding habits. Individuals of small size (9~16 cm, SL) fed mainly on small prey organisms such as mysids and amphipods. However, more cephalopods and fishes were consumed with increasing fish size (16~23 cm, SL).

Feeding Habits of Yellowback Seabream, Dentex tumifrons, in the Coastal Waters of Busan, Korea (부산 주변 해역에 출현하는 황돔(Dentex tumifrons)의 식성)

  • Kim, Ha-Won;Park, Joo-Myun;Baeck, Gun-Wook;Huh, Sung-Hoi
    • Korean Journal of Ichthyology
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.35-40
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    • 2012
  • The feeding habits of yellowback seabream, $Dentex$ $tumifrons$, were studied using 317 specimens collected in the coastal waters of Busan, from January to December, 2004. The size of the specimens ranged from 10.2 to 27.8 cm in standard length (SL). D. tumifrons had turned out a carnivore and opportunistic predator that consumed mainly shrimps. Fishes were next important prey items. Its diet also included anomurans, amphipods, crabs, echinodermata and cephalopods. Polychaetes, stomatopods, bivalves, ostracods, mysids and so on were minor preys. The individuals of smallest size class (10~13 cm SL) fed mainly on shrimps. In the next size class (13~16 cm SL), the proportion of shrimps decreased, whereas the consumption of anomurans, echinodermata and crabs increased. The proportion of these prey items decreased as body size increased, whereas the consumption of fishes gradually increased. Fishes accounted for almost stomach contents of larger individuals (more than 25 cm SL).

Feeding Habits of John dory, $Zeus$ $faber$ in the Coastal Waters of Geomun-do, Korea (거문도 주변해역에서 출현하는 달고기($Zeus$ $faber$)의 식성)

  • An, Young-Su;Park, Joo-Myun;Ye, Sang-Jin;Jeong, Jae-Mook;Baeck, Gun-Wook
    • Korean Journal of Ichthyology
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.20-26
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    • 2012
  • The feeding habits of john dory, $Zeus$ $faber$, were studied using 462 specimens collected in the coastal waters of Geomun-do, Korea. The size of the specimens ranged from 7.8 to 40.2cm in standard length (SL). $Z.$ $faber$ was a piscivore that consumes mainly teleosts such as $Trichiurus$ $lepturus$, $Scomber$ $japonicus$, $Callanthias$ $japonicus$ and $Trachurus$ $japonicus$. Of the fish species $T.$ $lepturus$ was the most preferred prey. Its diet also includes cephalopods, shrimps and euphausia. Smaller individuals (<15 cm SL) fed mainly on fishes and cephalopods. The proportion of cephalopods decreased as body size increased, whereas the consumption of fishes gradually increased. Fishes accounted for almost stomach contents of larger individuals (more than 15 cm SL).