Parasites of recruiting coral reef fish larvae in New Caledonia
| Autor: | Sylvie Pichelin, Serge Morand, Pierre Sasal, Alain Lo-Yat, René Galzin, Claude Chauvet, Elizabeth Faliex, Cédrik M. Lo, Mark C. Rigby, Vincent Dufour, Rodney A. Bray, Thomas H. Cribb |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Coral reef fish
Parasitic Diseases Animal Population Fish Diseases New Caledonia Animals education Reef geography education.field_of_study geography.geographical_feature_category biology Ecology fungi Fishes technology industry and agriculture Pelagic zone Coral reef biochemical phenomena metabolism and nutrition biology.organism_classification Infectious Diseases Platyhelminths Larva Cestoda population characteristics Biological dispersal Parasitology Trematoda geographic locations Monogenea |
| Zdroj: | International Journal for Parasitology. 30:1445-1451 |
| ISSN: | 0020-7519 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0020-7519(00)00121-1 |
| Popis: | Recruiting coral reef fish larvae from 38 species and 19 families from New Caledonia were examined for parasites. We found 13 parasite species (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea, Cestoda and Trematoda) but no acanthocephalan, crustacean or nematode parasites. Over 23% of individual fish were infected. Didymozoid metacercariae were the most abundant parasites. We conclude that most of the parasites are pelagic species that become 'lost' once the fish larvae have recruited to the reef. Larval coral reef fish probably contribute little to the dispersal of the parasites of the adult fish so that parasite dispersal is more difficult than that of the fish themselves. (C) 2000 Australian Society for Parasitology Inc. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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