Habitat Effects on the Occurrence of Parasites Inhabiting the Sergeant Major, Abudefduf saxatilis (Linnealus), with a List of Parasites of Caribbean Damselfishes

Authors

Steven E. Yeo, NIEHS Aquatic Biomedical Research Center
Richard E. Spieler, Milwaukee Public MuseumFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1980

Publication Title

Bulletin of Marine Science

ISSN

0007-4977

Volume

30

Issue/No.

Supplement 1

First Page

313

Last Page

324

Abstract

In June 1976 the parasitic faunas of sergeant majors, Abudefduf saxatilis, from a coral reef habitat near Akumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico and from an estuarine habitat in the adjacent caleta at Yalku were compared. The frequencies of occurrence of the nematode Spirocamallanus, the hemiurid trematode Genolinea the haplosplanchnid trematode Schikhobalotrema, and the copepod Holobomolochus nothrus, were dependent on collection locality. The residency of the damselfish in habitats with radically different salinity regimes, as well as the associated biotic communities within these habitats, are suspected causes of the observed differences.

NSUWorks Citation

Steven E. Yeo and Richard E. Spieler. 1980. Habitat Effects on the Occurrence of Parasites Inhabiting the Sergeant Major, Abudefduf saxatilis (Linnealus), with a List of Parasites of Caribbean Damselfishes .Bulletin of Marine Science , (Supplement 1) : 313 -324. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/197.