| parasite biodiversity in a coral reef fish: twelve species of monogeneans on the gills of the grouper epinephelus maculatus (perciformes: serranidae) off new caledonia, with a description of eight new species of pseudorhabdosynochus (monogenea: diplectanidae). | coral reefs are known for their high level of biodiversity, but parasite biodiversity has not been evaluated. cases such as epinephelus maculatus, described here, show that the numerical estimation of parasite biodiversity in coral reefs could reach more than ten times the number of fish species; consequently, the extinction of certain fish species from endangered coral reefs would result in the co-extinction of at least ten times the number of parasite species. e. maculatus is a grouper of inte ... | 2007 | 16972153 |