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A checklist of helminth parasites of Elasmobranchii in Mexico

Abstract. A comprehensive and updated summary of the literature and unpublished records contained in scientific collections on the helminth parasites of the elasmobranchs from Mexico is herein presented for the first time. At present, the helminth fauna associated with Elasmobranchii recorded in Mex...

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Autores principales: Merlo-Serna, Aldo Iván, García-Prieto, Luis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27047240
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.563.6067
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description Abstract. A comprehensive and updated summary of the literature and unpublished records contained in scientific collections on the helminth parasites of the elasmobranchs from Mexico is herein presented for the first time. At present, the helminth fauna associated with Elasmobranchii recorded in Mexico is composed of 132 (110 named species and 22 not assigned to species), which belong to 70 genera included in 27 families (plus 4 incertae sedis families of cestodes). These data represent 7.2% of the worldwide species richness. Platyhelminthes is the most widely represented, with 128 taxa: 94 of cestodes, 22 of monogeneans and 12 of trematodes; Nematoda and Annelida: Hirudinea are represented by only 2 taxa each. These records come from 54 localities, pertaining to 15 states; Baja California Sur (17 sampled localities) and Baja California (10), are the states with the highest species richness: 72 and 54 species, respectively. Up to now, 48 elasmobranch species have been recorded as hosts of helminths in Mexico; so, approximately 82% of sharks and 67% of rays distributed in Mexican waters lack helminthological studies. The present list provides the host, distribution (with geographical coordinates), site of infection, accession number in scientific collections, and references for the parasites. A host-parasite list is also provided.
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spelling pubmed-47972132016-04-04 A checklist of helminth parasites of Elasmobranchii in Mexico Merlo-Serna, Aldo Iván García-Prieto, Luis Zookeys Checklist Abstract. A comprehensive and updated summary of the literature and unpublished records contained in scientific collections on the helminth parasites of the elasmobranchs from Mexico is herein presented for the first time. At present, the helminth fauna associated with Elasmobranchii recorded in Mexico is composed of 132 (110 named species and 22 not assigned to species), which belong to 70 genera included in 27 families (plus 4 incertae sedis families of cestodes). These data represent 7.2% of the worldwide species richness. Platyhelminthes is the most widely represented, with 128 taxa: 94 of cestodes, 22 of monogeneans and 12 of trematodes; Nematoda and Annelida: Hirudinea are represented by only 2 taxa each. These records come from 54 localities, pertaining to 15 states; Baja California Sur (17 sampled localities) and Baja California (10), are the states with the highest species richness: 72 and 54 species, respectively. Up to now, 48 elasmobranch species have been recorded as hosts of helminths in Mexico; so, approximately 82% of sharks and 67% of rays distributed in Mexican waters lack helminthological studies. The present list provides the host, distribution (with geographical coordinates), site of infection, accession number in scientific collections, and references for the parasites. A host-parasite list is also provided. Pensoft Publishers 2016-02-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4797213/ /pubmed/27047240 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.563.6067 Text en Aldo Iván Merlo-Serna, Luis García-Prieto http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short A checklist of helminth parasites of Elasmobranchii in Mexico
title_sort checklist of helminth parasites of elasmobranchii in mexico
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27047240
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.563.6067
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