Metazoan Parasites of Antarctic Fishes
Mehmet Cemal Oğuz1, Yahya Tepe, Mark C Belk
1Department of Biology, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey. mark_belk@byu.edu.
Abstract:
To date, there have been nearly 100 papers published on metazoan parasites of Antarctic fishes, but there has not yet been any compilation of a species list of fish parasites for this large geographic area. Herein, we provide a list of all documented occurrences of monogenean, cestode, digenean, acanthocephalan, nematode, and hirudinean parasites of Antarctic fishes. The list includes nearly 250 parasite species found in 142 species of host fishes. It is likely that there are more species of fish parasites, which are yet to be documented from Antarctic waters.
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