Helminth parasites of Epinephelus morio (Pisces: Serranidae) of the Yucatan Peninsula, southeastern Mexico

Title:

Helminth parasites of Epinephelus morio (Pisces: Serranidae) of the Yucatan Peninsula, southeastern Mexico

Creator:

Moravec, František, Vidal-Martinez, Victor M., Vargas-Vázquez, Joaquin, Vivas-Rodriguez, Carla, Gonzáles-Solís, David, Mendoza-Franco, Edgar, Simá-Alvarez, Raúl, and Guemez-Ricalde, Jorge

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:b6c8cec2-6932-4464-921d-43f7f17ba74a
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urnnbn:urn:nbn:cz:aba007-000dnw

Subject:

Epinephelus morio, fishes, helminths, Gulf of Mexico, Yucatan Peninsula, and Mexico

Type:

model:internalpart and TEXT

Format:

print

Description:

The present paper comprises a systematic survey of helminths from 202 red groupers, Epinephelus morio (Valenciennes) (Pisces: Serranidae), the most important commercial marine fish in the region, collected from ten localities off the Yucatan Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico during 1994-1996; two more helminth species were recorded from E. morio earlier. Thirty species of helminths were found: Monogenea 1, Cestoda 3, Trematoda 17, Nematoda 8, Acanthocephala 1. Of them, 15 species were adults, whereas 15 species were larval stages parasitizing piscivorous elasmobranch and teleostean fishes, birds and marine mammals as adults. A new didymozoid trematode, Allonematohnlhrium yucatanense sp. n., is described from the fins of this host. Most findings represent new host- and geographical records. Philometra margolisi, a nematode parasitizing the gonads, is undoubtedly the most important parasite affecting the reproduction of the host, endangering E. morio in aquaculture. Larval anisakid nematodes (Anisakis, Pseudoterranova, Hysterothylacium) recorded from the red grouper in the region of the southern Gulf of Mexico are important from the viewpoint of public health.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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Coverage:

255-266 and 17-28

Source:

Folia parasitologica | 1997 Volume:44 | Number:4

Harvested from:

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