Parasites of pufferfish

Autor: Michael, Gabel, Patrick, Unger, Stefan, Theisen, Harry Wilhelm, Palm, Shevy, Bat-Sheva Rothman, Nitzan, Yitzhak, Arseniy R, Morov, Nir, Stern
Rok vydání: 2022
Zdroj: International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife. 19
ISSN: 2213-2244
Popis: With the opening of the Suez Canal as a link between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea in 1869, the biogeographical event of the Lessepsian migration has been starting. Aided by beneficial conditions in the new habitat, almost 500 marine species have immigrated and often established themselves in the Mediterranean Sea, including several pufferfish species, with all of them extending their range and becoming important components of the local fauna. The parasitic fauna of these pufferfish has scarcely been examined in the Mediterranean Sea or in their native range, which provides the opportunity to study host-parasite interaction in a new habitat. The present study describes the parasitic fauna in four alien invasive pufferfish species (
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