Helminth parasites of Epinephelus morio (Pisces: Serranidae) of the Yucatan Peninsula, southeastern Mexico
1997
Moravec, F. | Vidal-Martinez, V.M. | Vargas-Vazquez, J. | Vivas-Rodriguez, C. | Gonzalez-Solis, D. | Mendoza-Franco, E. | Sima-Alvarez, R. | Guemez-Ricalde, J. (National Polytechnic Inst., Merida (Mexico). Centre for Research and Advanced Studies)
The present paper comprises a systematic survey of helminths from 202 red groupers, Epinephelus morio. 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, Allonematobothrium yucatanense sp.n., is described from the fins of this host. Philometra margolisi, a nematode parasitizing the gonads, is undoubtedly the most important parasite affecting the reproduction of the host, endangering E. morio in aquaculture.
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