Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.32582/aa.58.2.2

Metazoan parasites of trachinid fishes (Teleostei: Trachinidae) from Tunisian coasts (Mediterranean Sea)

Ramla AZIZI ; Research Unit of Integrative Biology and Evolutionary and Functional Ecology of Aquatic Systems, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
Chiraz YEMMEN orcid.org/0000-0001-9524-0522 ; Research Unit of Integrative Biology and Evolutionary and Functional Ecology of Aquatic Systems, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
Sihem BAHRI ; Research Unit of Integrative Biology and Evolutionary and Functional Ecology of Aquatic Systems, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

Abstract

A parasitological survey of Trachinus draco Linnaeus, 1758; Trachinus araneus Cuvier, 1829 and Trachinus radiatus Cuvier, 1829 collected from Tunisian coasts was performed from January 2014 to January 2015. In total, 18 species of metazoan parasites belonging to 13 genera were found: nine Myxozoa, four Nematoda, one Cestoda, one Digenea, one Monogenea, one Isopoda and one Annelida Hirudinea. Data on morphology, location and infection levels of parasites were provided. The higher species richness was recorded in Trachinus draco (18 species), while Trachinus radiatus and Trachinus araneus harbored 9 and 7 species, respectively. Species richness and diversity
according to the host species and the sampling sites based on the Simpson and Shannon-Wiener indices are reported.

Keywords

Trachinidae fish; Metazoan parasites; species richness; Tunisia

Hrčak ID:

193769

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/193769

Publication date:

12.12.2017.

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