| the adhesive attitudes of some gill-parasitic capsalid monogeneans. | a description is given of three contrasting adhesive attitudes exhibited by three species of capsalid monogeneans from the gills of three different species of teleost fish from heron island, queensland, australia. the proximal end of the primary lamella of the coral trout, plectropomus maculatus has a wide inner border, free from secondary lamellae, on each flat face. the haptor of trochopus plectropomi is small enough to attach to this flat surface without folding. benedenia sp. 1 attaches itse ... | 1991 | 1795088 |
| a dna-based demonstration of a three-host life-cycle for the bivesiculidae (platyhelminthes: digenea) | immature bivesiculid trematodes collected from the intestine of thlalassoma lunare (labridae) are shown to be morphologically consistent with adults of bivesicula claviformis from epinephelus fasciatus (serranidae). in addition, the immature bivesiculids have the same sequence for the second internal transcribed spacer of the ribosomal dna. comparison with three other species of bivesiculidae showed differences of between 23% and 30%. these results show that bivesiculids may have three-host life ... | 1998 | 9846617 |
| revision of allobenedenia yamaguti, 1963 (monogenoidea: capsalidae) with the description of a. zhangi n. sp. from epinephelus fasciatus (teleostei: serranidae) in the south china sea. | allobenedenia yamaguti, 1963 is revised to include capsalid species with five radial septa in the haptor. megalocotyloides bychowsky & nagibina, 1967 and allosprostonia lawler & hargis, 1968 are considered junior synonyms of allobenedenia. eight described species comprise the genus: a. convoluta (yamaguti, 1937) yamaguti, 1963 (type-species), a. epinepheli (bychowsky & nagibina, 1967) n. comb., a. patagonica (evdokimova, 1969) n. comb., a. pedunculata raju & rao, 1980, a. pseudomarginata (bravo- ... | 2004 | 15542951 |
| 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 |
| sperm ultrastructure of helicometra epinepheli (platyhelminthes, digenea, opecoelidae), parasite of epinephelus fasciatus (pisces, teleostei). | this paper describes the ultrastructure of the mature spermatozoon of the digenean helicometra epinepheli. the ultrastructural elements observed are: two axonemes with a 9+"1" pattern of trepaxonemata, four attachment zones, a nucleus, two mitochondria, external ornamentation of the plasma membrane, spine-like bodies and cortical microtubules. a particularity of this spermatozoon is the presence of an apical cone. however, the spermatozoon presents the general pattern of the opecoelidae and thus ... | 2011 | 21692034 |
| some camallanid nematodes from marine perciform fishes off new caledonia. | two new, one known and three unidentified species of the nematode family camallanidae are reported and described from the intestines of marine perciform fishes off the southwestern coast of new caledonia, south pacific: camallanus carangis olsen, 1952 from the forked-tailed threadfin bream nemipterus furcosus (nemipteridae), the yellowstriped goatfish upeneus vittatus and the whitesaddle goatfish parupeneus ciliatus (both mullidae) (new host records); procamallanus (spirocamallanus) variolae sp. ... | 2006 | 17120503 |
| skin toxins in coral-associated gobiodon species (teleostei: gobiidae) affect predator preference and prey survival. | predation risk is high for the many small coral reef fishes, requiring successful sheltering or other predator defence mechanisms. coral-dwelling gobies of the genus gobiodon live in close association with scleractinian corals of the genus acropora. earlier studies indicated that the low movement frequency of adult fishes and the development of skin toxins (crinotoxicity) are predation avoidance mechanisms. although past experiments showed that predators refuse food prepared with goby skin mucus ... | 2015 | 26074654 |
| first record of the indo-pacific areolate grouper epinephelus areolatus (forsskål, 1775) (perciformes: epinephelidae) in the mediterranean sea. | the number of alien species in the mediterranean sea is steadily increasing and it seems that the pace has been accelerating since the turn of the century (galil et al. 2014). in 2015 alone five additional fish species have been reported, epinephelus geoffroyi (klunzinger, 1870) (golani et al. 2015); stolephorus indicus (van hasselt, 1823) (fricke et al. 2015); sardinella gibbosa (bleeker, 1849) (stern et al. 2015); mobula japanica (müller & henle, 1841) (capapé et al. 2015); and cryptocentrus c ... | 2016 | 27395890 |
| philometrids (nematoda: philometridae) in carangid and serranid fishes off new caledonia, including three new species. | a recent examination of newly obtained specimens of philometrid nematodes (philometridae) parasitising carangid and serranid fishes off new caledonia, south pacific, revealed the presence of several nematodes of the genus philometra costa, 1845, including three new species: p. austropacifica n. sp. (males and females) from the ovary of alepes vari (carangidae), p. piscaria n. sp. (males) from the ovary of epinephelus coioides (serranidae), and p. selaris n. sp. (males) probably from the abdomina ... | 2014 | 24836940 |
| mitochondrial signatures for identification of grouper species from indian waters. | groupers are important commercial fish in many parts of the world. accurate identification is critical for effective conservation assessment and fisheries management. genetic barcodes provide a simple and reproducible method for the identification of species even in the absence of taxonomic expertise. the generation of reference barcodes from properly identified specimens is an important first step in this direction. here, 36 species belonging to the subfamily epinephelinae (family: serranidae) ... | 2016 | 27159687 |
| feeding ecology of some fish species occurring in artisanal fishery of socotra island (yemen). | the demersal species lethrinus borbonicus, lethrinus mahsena, lethrinus microdon, lethrinus nebulosus, lutjanus bohar, lutjanus gibbus, lutjanus kasmira, epinephelus fasciatus, epinephelus stoliczkae, carangoides gymnostethus and euthynnus affinis are important coastal fishes species of the northern coast of socotra (yemen), exploited by local fishery. the biology and feeding ecology of these species are poorly known in the area. a total of 1239 specimens were sampled from the main fishing landi ... | 2016 | 26880127 |
| lipid characteristics of five epinephelinae fishes, epinephelus fasciatus, epinephelus retouti, cephalopholis aurantia, cephalopholis miniatus, and variola louti, in the coral reef. | the lipid and fatty acid compositions of the muscle and liver of five epinephelinae fishes (epinephelus fasciatus, epinephelus retouti, cephalopholis aurantia, cephalopholis miniatus, and variola louti) in the coral reef were investigated. the major polyunsaturated fatty acid (pufa) in the epinephelinae fish triacylglycerols was 22:6n-3 (docosahexaenoic acid; dha), which was similar to high levels of dha in the depot triacylglycerols of highly migratory fishes. in the phospholipids of all specim ... | 2014 | 24717545 |
| characterization of cholecystokinin-producing cells and mucus-secreting goblet cells in the blacktip grouper, epinephelus fasciatus. | the characteristics and distributions of cholecystokinin (cck)-producing cells and mucus-secreting goblet cells were investigated in the digestive tract of the blacktip grouper (epinephelus fasciatus). cck-producing cells were scattered throughout the digestive tract. the highest frequency of cck-producing cells was observed in the anterior intestine portion and pyloric ceca, with a very small number of cells distributed as far as the rectum. mucus-secreting goblet cells were found to differ rem ... | 2013 | 23274134 |
| a new genus and species of hatschekiid copepod (siphonostomatoida) from groupers (actinopterygii: serranidae) collected off the ryukyu archipelago, japan. | a new genus and species of copepod, mihbaicola sakamakii n. g., n. sp., belonging to the siphonostomatoid family hatschekiidae, is described based on the females collected from inside the tissue of the branchiostegal membrane in three species of the groupers, epinephelus fasciatus (forsskål) (type-host), e. merra bloch and cephalopholis leopardus (lacépède), collected off okinawa-jima island and iriomote-jima island, ryukyu archipelago, north pacific ocean. the new genus can be distinguished fro ... | 2013 | 23263944 |
| the 'pseudorhabdosynochus cupatus group' (monogenea: diplectanidae) on epinephelus fasciatus, e. howlandi, e. rivulatus and e. merra (perciformes: serranidae) off new caledonia, with descriptions of pseudorhabdosynochus cyathus n. sp. and p. calathus n. sp. | pseudorhabdosynochus cupatus (young, 1969) is characterised by small lamellosquamodiscs made up of central telescopic rings and peripheral rows of rodlets, and a sclerotised vagina in the shape of a thin-walled coiled tube with three accessory chambers. two new species of pseudorhabdosynochus are herein described from epinepheline fish off new caledonia, south pacific, and are considered part of the 'p. cupatus group'. p. cyathus n. sp. from epinephelus howlandi has lamellosquamodiscs made up of ... | 2006 | 16773473 |
| species of pseudorhabdosynochus yamaguti, 1958 (monogenea: diplectanidae) from epinephelus fasciatus and e. merra (perciformes: serranidae) off new caledonia and other parts of the indo-pacific ocean, with a comparison of measurements of specimens prepared using different methods, and a description of p. caledonicus n. sp. | species of pseudorhabdosynochus were studied from fresh specimens collected from epinephelus fasciatus and e. merra off new caledonia, south pacific, and specimens deposited in museums. experiments on two species demonstrated that the sclerotised hollow organs, such as the quadriloculate male copulatory organ and the vagina, may show differences in measurements of up to 50% when flattened. p. caledonicus n. sp. is described from e. fasciatus in new caledonia, on which it is relatively rare; it i ... | 2005 | 16132868 |