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New data on pipefishes’ and seahorse’s endohelminths off Crimean coasts of the Black Sea


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Sampling sites: 1. Karkinit Gulf, The Crimean Nature Reserve, “Swan Islands” branch (Sari-Bulat Bay); 2. Karkinit Gulf, Steregucshee; 3-5. Sevastopol (3 – river Chernaya estuary, 4 – Streletskaya Bay, 5 – Kazachya Bay, aquatoria of State Zoological Reserve “Kazachya Bay”); 6. Kerch Strait, Naberezhnoe (MapQuest Open Aerial)
Sampling sites: 1. Karkinit Gulf, The Crimean Nature Reserve, “Swan Islands” branch (Sari-Bulat Bay); 2. Karkinit Gulf, Steregucshee; 3-5. Sevastopol (3 – river Chernaya estuary, 4 – Streletskaya Bay, 5 – Kazachya Bay, aquatoria of State Zoological Reserve “Kazachya Bay”); 6. Kerch Strait, Naberezhnoe (MapQuest Open Aerial)

Modem data on species composition of Syngnathidae helminths off the Black Sea shelf of Crimea, with infection indices.

Fish species FishNo Location Parasite species II** PI† AI*
Syngnathus abaster 91 Sevastopol: “Scolex pleuronectis’’ I.1 1-4/2.5 ± 1.5 2.3 0.06 ± 0.05
river Chernaya estuary Bothriocephalus gregarius I. 2-18/8 ±4 5 0.3 ± 0.2
Progrillotia dasyatidis I. 1 1 0.01 ±0.01
Acantocephaloides propinquus* 1 1 0.01 ±0.01
typhle Contracaecum rudolphii I. 1 1 0.01 ±0.01
Hysterothylacium aduncum I. Ill 3 3 0.03 ±0.03
H. aduncum I. IV 1 1 0.01 ±0.01
Timoniella imbutiformis met. 2 1.1 0.02 ±0.02
Cryptocotyle concava met. 2 2.2 0.04 ± 0.03

16 Sevastopol: Telosentis exiguus 1 13 0.13 ±0.09
22 Streletskaya Bay T. imbutiformis met. 1 4.6 0.05 ±0.05
Cryptocotyle concava met. 1 13.6 0.14 ±0.07

20 Sevastopol: T. imbutiformis met. 1 5 0.05 ±0.05
Kazachya Bay** Pygidiopsis genata met. 2 10 0.2 ±0.14

Syngnatus typhle 18 Sevastopol: H. aduncum I. Ill 1-15/5.7 ±5 17 0.9 ± 0.8
river Chernaya estuary T. imbutiformis 2-24/13 ±11 11.1 1.89 ± 1.35

12 Kerch Strait, Naberezhnoe C. rudolphii I. 1 8.3 0.08 ±0.08
11 T. imbutiformis 1-72/19.44 ±8.1 81.8 15.91 ±6.93

1 Sevastopol: Streletskaya Bay Aphallus tubarium 4 of 12 - -
T. imbutiformis 7 of 1 - -

15 Karkinit Gulf: Steregucshee “S. pleuronectis’’ I. 1 7 0.07 ± 0.07
Contracaecum multipapillatum I. 1-2/1.5 ± 0.5 13 0.2 ± 0.1
C. rudolphii I. 1-11/3 ±0.9 67 2.1 ±0.7
22 A. tubarium 1-2/1.5 ± 0.5 9.1 0.13 ± 0.1
C. concava met. 4-18/9 ±4.5 13.6 1.2 ± 0.8
T. imbutiformis 1-27/12.8 ±2.7 68.2 8.7 ± 2.3

21 Karkinit Gulf: C. rudolphii I. 1-23/5.4 ±2.6 38 2.1 ± 1.1
Sari-Bulat Bay* C. multipapillatum I. 1-5/2.3 ± 1.3 14.3 0.3 ± 0.2
H. aduncum I. Ill 1 5 0.05 ±0.05
abaster Cosmocephalus obvelatus 2 5 0.1 ±0.1
7 T. imbutiformis 2-27/19.2 ±5.1 71.4 13.7 ± 5.0
T. imbutiformis met. 3-6/4.5 ± 1.5 28.6 1.3 ± 0.9
A. tubarium 1-2/1.5 ± 0.5 28.6 0.4 ± 0.3

Hippocampus guttulatus 29 Kerch Strait, Naberezhnoe H. aduncum I.III T. exiguus 1-2/1.5 ± 0.5 2 7 3.4 0.1 ±0.08 0.1 ±0.07
34 T. imbutiformis met. 1-8/3.3 ± 2.3 8.8 0.3 ±0.2

37 Karkinit Gulf: C. rudolphii\. 1-2/1.5 ± 0.5 5 0.1 ±0.06
Sari-Bulat Bay* C. multipapillatum I. 1 3 0.03 ±0.03
T. exiguus 1 3 0.03 ±0.03
34 T. imbutiformis met. 2-78/31.9 ± 11.9 23.2 7.7 ± 3.6
A. tubarium 1/1 2.9 0.03 ±0.03
Galactosomum lacteum met. 2–6/3.3 ± 1.3 0.9 0.3 ± 0.2
C. concava mtc. 1–9/4.3 ± 1.8 11.8 0.5 ± 0.3
Opecoelidae gen. sp. met. 1–6/2.5 ± 1.2 11.8 0.3 ± 0.2
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