Abstract
Abstract In the heart and lungs of 158 harbour seals, Phoca vitulina, which died in the KattegatSkagerrak and the Baltic during the seal epizootic in 1988, only one nematode species, Dipetalonema spirocauda, was found in 18 seals (prevalence 11.4 %). The parasite was more frequent in immature seals than in adult specimens. Only one seal over five years of age was infected. The acanthocephalan Corynosoma strumosum was found in 32 % of 146 seal intestines and the parasite was more frequent in the Skagerrak and northern Kattegat than in southern Kattegat and the Baltic. Neither intestinal cestodes nor the seal louse Echinophthirius horridus of the skin were found.
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