Patterns of species diversity in the gastrointestinal helminths of a coral reef fish, Epinephelus merra (Serranidae), from French Polynesia and the South Pacific Ocean

Autor:	Mark C. Rigby, John C. Holmes, Serge Morand, Thomas H. Cribb
Rok vydání:	1997
Předmět:	geography geography.geographical_feature_category Serranidae biology Ecology Coral reef fish Fauna Fringing reef Species diversity Coral reef Epinephelus biology.organism_classification Fishery Archipelago Animal Science and Zoology Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics
Zdroj:	Canadian Journal of Zoology. 75:1818-1827
ISSN:	1480-3283 0008-4301
DOI:	10.1139/z97-811
Popis:	Large-scale patterns of species diversity in the gastrointestinal helminth faunas of the coral reef fish Epinephelus merra (Serranidae) were investigated in French Polynesia and the South Pacific Ocean. The richer barrier reef community in French Polynesia supported richer parasite communities in E. merra than that on the fringing reef. While parasite communities among fish from the same archipelago were similar, differences in potential host species and the distance between archipelagos may have contributed to a qualitative difference in parasite communities between archipelagos. Digenean community diversity in coral reef fishes was greater in the western South Pacific, following similar patterns in free-living species. However, overall species diversity of camallanid nematodes of coral reef fishes does not appear to have been similarly affected.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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