Publications

study of an outbreak of ciguatera fish poisoning in hong kong.	ciguatera fish poisoning (cfp) has been a significant and increasing public health problem in hong kong since 1980s. with growing demand for imported live coral fishes, the number of people who suffered from this disease has also been increasing. an outbreak of cfp in 2004 was the second most prominent in record as compared with the most significant one that occurred in 1998. in 2004, out of a total of 823 reported food poisoning outbreaks involving 3159 persons, 65 incidents (7.9%) affecting 24 ...	2005	16085209
contrasting patterns of genetic structure in two species of the coral trout plectropomus (serranidae) from east and west australia: introgressive hybridisation or ancestral polymorphisms.	inter-specific genetic relationships among regional populations of two species of grouper (plectropomus maculatus and plectropomus leopardus) were examined using mitochondrial and nuclear markers. mtdna revealed contrasting regional inter-specific patterns whilst nuclear markers revealed contrasting patterns among markers, irrespective of region. in eastern australia (ea) the species form a single mtdna lineage, but the two species are reciprocally monophyletic in western australia (wa). this su ...	2006	16806990
seven new species of ceratomyxa thélohan, 1892 (myxozoa) from the gall-bladders of serranid fishes from the great barrier reef, australia.	ceratomyxa spp. from the gall-bladder of five members of the family serranidae were examined for their taxonomic identity. this paper describes seven new ceratomyxid species, i.e. c. brayi n. sp. and c. whippsi n. sp from cephalopholis boenak (bloch); c. cutmorei n. sp. from epinephelus fasciatus (forsskål); c. gleesoni n. sp. from plectropomus leopardus (lacépède); c. hooperi n. sp. and c. nolani n. sp. from e. quoyanus (valenciennes); and c. yokoyamai n. sp. from e. maculatus (bloch). each spe ...	2009	19337855
huffmanela plectropomi n. sp. (nematoda: trichosomoididae: huffmanelinae) from the coralgrouper plectropomus leopardus (lacépède) off new caledonia.	huffmanela plectropomi n. sp. is described from eggs only, which were found in black spots in the mesentery of a coralgrouper, plectropomus leopardus (lacépède), caught near nouméa, new caledonia, south pacific. the eggs are 64-76 (mean 69) μm in length and 29-35 (mean 32) μm in width, with a thin shell. the surface of the eggs bears a thick, continuous layer of filaments. the species is distinguished from other members of the genus by the dimensions of its eggs and the characteristics of their ...	2011	21544712
complete mitochondrial genome of squaretail coralgrouper plectropomus areolatus (perciformes, epinephelidae).	the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) sequence of squaretail coralgrouper plectropomus areolatus was determined with long pcr approach. the genome was 16,770 bp in length and contained 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer rnas (trnas), 2 ribosomal rnas (rrnas), and 2 non-coding regions, with the gene content and order being similar to most other teleosts. the overall base composition of the mitogenome was estimated to be 28.81% a, 27.63% t, 27.24% c, and 16.33% g, with a high at content ...	2013	23387393
bucephalidae (platyhelminthes: digenea) of plectropomus (serranidae: epinephelinae) in the tropical pacific.	we examined four species of plectropomus oken, 1817 (serranidae: epinephelinae), plectropomus areolatus (rüppell), plectropomus laevis (lacepède), plectropomus leopardus (lacepède) and plectropomus maculatus (bloch) from sites off heron island and lizard island on the great barrier reef, australia (gbr), and the gambier islands, french polynesia. three new species of neidhartia nagaty, 1937, five new species of prosorhynchus odhner, 1905, and one previously described species, prosorhynchus freit ...	2013	23728730
bucephalidae (digenea) from epinephelines (serranidae: perciformes) from the waters off new caledonia, including neidhartia lochepintade n. sp.	many bucephalid species, mainly of the subfamily prosorhynchinae, have been described from epinepheline serranids (groupers) throughout the world's oceans. in this paper eight named prosorhynchine species are described and/or illustrated from epinepheline fishes from new caledonia. neidhartia lochepintade n. sp. in epinephelus chlorostigma differs from other neidhartia spp. in various combinations of distinct body-size, rhynchus size, previtelline and pre-mouth distance, post-testicular distance ...	2013	24351242
two new species of phyllodistomum braun, 1899 (trematoda: gorgoderidae looss, 1899) from great barrier reef fishes.	two new species of phyllodistomum braun, 1899 are described from the urinary bladder of fishes of the great barrier reef. phyllodistomum hoggettae n. sp. is described from plectropomus leopardus (leopard coralgrouper) (serranidae) and p. vaili n. sp. is described from mulloidichthys vanicolensis (yellowfin goatfish) and m. flavolineatus (yellowstripe goatfish) (mullidae). these species are compared with 26 previously described marine phyllodistomum species and found to be distinct in combination ...	2014	24871750
capillaria plectropomi n. sp. (nematoda: capillariidae), a new intestinal parasite of the leopard coral grouper plectropomus leopardus (serranidae) off new caledonia.	a new nematode species, capillaria plectropomi n. sp. (capillariidae), is described from the intestine of the leopard coral grouper plectropomus leopardus (lacepède) from coral reefs off new caledonia. the new species, belonging to the subgenus neocapillaria moravec, 1987, differs from other congeneric species of this subgenus from marine fishes mainly in the length (168-186 μm), shape and structure of the spicule. it is characterized, in the male, by the presence of two well-developed dorsolate ...	2014	25531932