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Posted by6 years ago

Amberjack tail – what’s in it?

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· 6 yr. ago

This video refers to them as spaghetti worms (Wiki) which look similar to your photo.

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Title How to Remove Worms from Amber jack Fish
Description Check this out, This is how to remove the worms from Amber jack Fish. They look like spaghetti and are alive when you remove them. Often called “spaghetti worms”, these worms are a specific life stage of tapeworms that can be found embedded in the muscle of just about every specimen of banded rudderfish, greater amberjack, and almaco jack caught in North Carolina.Tapeworms are not closely related to your everyday segmented earthworms of the phylum Annelida. Instead, they belong to the phylum Platyhelminthes, which consists of unsegmented flatworms. Tapeworms also lack a digestive tract, and instead are able to absorb carbohydrates directly from their host, which is what allows them to live as internal parasites.Amberjack worms have the potential to be any number of similar tapeworm species and are all but impossible to identify to that level with the naked eye.The amberjack worms begin their life cycle as eggs inside a segment of the adult tapeworm, inside the digestive tract of a shark. These eggs are then broadcast into the water via the shark’s feces. The eggs will hatch and continue to mature into a coracidium larva. If the worm is lucky, small crustaceans will then feed on the coracidium, at which point a transformation into the second larval stage takes place. Now known as a procercoid larva, the worm lives inside the crustacean until fed upon by a fish. Once inside the amberjack, the worm will once again undergo a transformation into the third stage known as the plerocercoid larva stage. It is this stage that we refer to as “spaghetti worms”.The trypanorhynch plerocercoid will now stay put and grow inside the amberjack for a number of years, waiting for their opportunity to be consumed by a shark. If this occurs, the worm will attach to the intestines of the shark, and mature into an adult tapeworm to repeat the cycle.
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Trypanorhyncha

Trypanorhyncha is an order of cestode, a type of flatworm.

Some species infect gamefish, such as sciaenids, during the parasitic worm’s plerocercoid stage, and are commonly called spaghetti worm because of their appearance, approximating cooked spaghetti. Such species include Poecilancistrium caryophyllum and Pseudogrillotia pleistacantha.

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