Publications

turbellarian black spot disease in bluespine unicornfish naso unicornis in new caledonia, caused by the parasitic turbellarian piscinquilinus sp.	turbellarian black spot disease is described in a bluespine unicornfish naso unicornis (perciformes, acanthuridae) collected from the wild off nouméa, new caledonia, south pacific. each cyst contained a whitish worm, 2 to 4 mm in length, which was able to swim freely in seawater. cyst walls consisted of fibrous tissue with a scattering of melanocytes. worms had 2 eyespots at the anterior end, a pharynx at the posterior end and a largely undeveloped reproductive system. they were identified as pi ...	2009	19750813
high population connectivity across the indo-pacific: congruent lack of phylogeographic structure in three reef fish congeners.	we used the mitochondrial control region and a comparative approach to study the genetic population structure of two surgeonfishes, naso brevirostris and naso unicornis, across their indo-central pacific ranges. our purpose was to compare our results with those of a previous study of naso vlamingii [klanten, s.o., van herwerden, l., choat j.h., 2007. extreme genetic diversity and temporal rather than spatial partitioning in a widely distributed coral reef fish. mar. biol. 150, 659-670] another w ...	2008	18804542
a new genus of sea louse (copepoda:siphonostomatoida: caligidae) parasitic on the bluespine unicornfish (naso unicornis).	a new genus, alanlewisia, of the family caligidae is established to accommodate a sea louse species originally, but tentatively, placed in the genus lepeophtheirus by lewis (1967). the type species is alanlewisia fallolunulus (lewis, 1967) comb. n., which is redescribed in detail based on new material collected from bluespine unicornfish, naso unicornis (forsskål), caught off new caledonia in the south pacific. this species was originally described by lewis (1967) under the binomen lepeophtheiru ...	2008	19202682
identical digeneans in coral reef fishes from french polynesia and the great barrier reef (australia) demonstrated by morphology and molecules.	three coral reef fish species, zanclus cornutus, chaetodon vagabundus and naso lituratus, were collected in french polynesia and on the great barrier reef, queensland. these fish species were each infected by one morphologically similar digenean species in both localities; schistorchis zancli hanson, 1953 was found in zanclus cornutus, preptetos laguncula bray and cribb, 1996 in naso lituratus and neohypocreadium dorsoporum machida and uchida, 1987 in chaetodon vagabundus. in addition, on the gr ...	2001	11730783