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

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May 04, 2022

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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