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Helminth Community of the Black Margate Anisotremus surinamensis (Teleostei: Haemulidae), from Coral Reefs off the Veracruz Coast, Mexico, Southern Gulf of Mexico

by
Jesús Montoya-Mendoza
1,
Guillermo Salgado-Maldonado
2,*,
Carlos Roberto Blanco-Segovia
1,
Edgar F. Mendoza-Franco
3 and
Fabiola Lango-Reynoso
1
1
Laboratorio de Investigación Acuícola Aplicada, Tecnológico Nacional de México, Instituto Tecnológico de Boca del Río, Km 12 Carretera Veracruz-Córdoba, Boca del Río, Veracruz 94290, Mexico
2
Laboratorio de Helmintología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad de Mexico 04510, Mexico
3
Instituto de Ecología, Pesquerías y Oceanografía del Golfo de México (EPOMEX), Universidad Autónoma de Campeche, Avenida Héroe de Nacozari No. 480, San Francisco de Campeche, Campeche 24039, Mexico
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Diversity 2022, 14(5), 368; https://doi.org/10.3390/d14050368
Submission received: 18 February 2022 / Revised: 15 April 2022 / Accepted: 15 April 2022 / Published: 6 May 2022
(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers in Animal Diversity)
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Abstract

We describe the composition and structure of the helminth community of the black margate Anisotremus surinamensis in coral reefs from the Parque Nacional Sistema Arrecifal Veracruzano (PNSAV) off the Veracruz coast. We examined a total of 78 specimens (total length TL range 21.7–77.9, mean 33.7 cm) (28 males, TL range 22.5–51.5, mean 32.7 cm; 50 females, TL range 21.7–77.9, mean 34.3 cm) of A. surinamensis. At least nine helminth taxa (seven intestinal) were found, for all of which A. surinamensis is a new host. Our inventory includes two new geographic records for the southern Gulf of Mexico: the digeneans Cainocreadium oscitans (Linton, 1910) and Infundiburictus longovatus (Hopkins, 1941). Observed component community richness (S = 9) and infracommunity richness (mean ± SD, S = 2.8 ± 1.3) for A. surinamensis were lower than previously recorded richness for the sympatric A. virginicus and other coral reef fishes from the PNSAV. Numerically dominant taxa were trematodes (four taxa) and monogeneans (two), followed by nematodes (one), acanthocephalans (and) and cestodes (one). The trematode Monorchis latus was the more prevalent, more abundant and numerically dominant helminth species in the community of parasites of A. surinamensis.
Keywords: coral reef; parasites of fish; richness; diversity; southern Gulf of Mexico coral reef; parasites of fish; richness; diversity; southern Gulf of Mexico

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Montoya-Mendoza, J.; Salgado-Maldonado, G.; Blanco-Segovia, C.R.; Mendoza-Franco, E.F.; Lango-Reynoso, F. Helminth Community of the Black Margate Anisotremus surinamensis (Teleostei: Haemulidae), from Coral Reefs off the Veracruz Coast, Mexico, Southern Gulf of Mexico. Diversity 2022, 14, 368. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14050368

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Montoya-Mendoza J, Salgado-Maldonado G, Blanco-Segovia CR, Mendoza-Franco EF, Lango-Reynoso F. Helminth Community of the Black Margate Anisotremus surinamensis (Teleostei: Haemulidae), from Coral Reefs off the Veracruz Coast, Mexico, Southern Gulf of Mexico. Diversity. 2022; 14(5):368. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14050368

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Montoya-Mendoza, Jesús, Guillermo Salgado-Maldonado, Carlos Roberto Blanco-Segovia, Edgar F. Mendoza-Franco, and Fabiola Lango-Reynoso. 2022. "Helminth Community of the Black Margate Anisotremus surinamensis (Teleostei: Haemulidae), from Coral Reefs off the Veracruz Coast, Mexico, Southern Gulf of Mexico" Diversity 14, no. 5: 368. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14050368

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Montoya-Mendoza, J., Salgado-Maldonado, G., Blanco-Segovia, C. R., Mendoza-Franco, E. F., & Lango-Reynoso, F. (2022). Helminth Community of the Black Margate Anisotremus surinamensis (Teleostei: Haemulidae), from Coral Reefs off the Veracruz Coast, Mexico, Southern Gulf of Mexico. Diversity, 14(5), 368. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14050368

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