| crustacean fish parasites from segara anakan lagoon, java, indonesia. | the present study is the first investigation on ectoparasites of commercial important fish from segara anakan, a brackish water lagoon located at the southern coast of java, indonesia. eight economically important marine fish species (mugil cephalus, siganus javus, scatophagus argus, caranx sexfasciatus, lutjanus johnii, eleutheronema tetradactylum, johnius coitor, and epinephelus coioides) were examined for crustacean parasites. prevalence and intensity data for each parasite species are given, ... | 2007 | 17219222 |
| analysis of heavy metals in marine fish from mumbai docks. | seafood containing heavy metals as a result of environmental contamination causes toxicity in human beings. to evaluate such kind of contamination, our study targeted the analysis of metals such as lead, copper, cadmium, mercury, and arsenic in muscle tissue of the fish. the fish commonly consumed such as brama brama (pomfret), rachycentron canadus (surmai/king fish), rastrelliger kanagurta (mackerel), eleutheronema tetradactylum (ravas/indian salmon), and metapenaeus monoceros (brown prawn) wer ... | 2009 | 19089595 |
| stock structure of blue threadfin eleutheronema tetradactylum across northern australia, as indicated by parasites. | the parasite fauna of the blue threadfin eleutheronema tetradactylum, collected from 14 sites across northern australia, was examined to evaluate the degree of movement and subsequent stock structure of the fish. univariate and multivariate analysis of nine 'permanent' parasite species [the nematodes anisakis (type i) and terranova (type ii), the cestodes otobothrium australe, pterobothrium pearsoni, pterobothrium sp. a, callitetrarhynchus gracilis, parotobothrium balli and nybelinia sp., and th ... | 2011 | 21366582 |
| stock structure of blue threadfin eleutheronema tetradactylum on the queensland east coast, as determined by parasites and conventional tagging. | blue threadfin eleutheronema tetradactylum (polynemidae) were examined from four areas (princess charlotte bay, trinity inlet, halifax bay and upstart bay) in eastern queensland covering a distance of c. 950 km of coastline. parasites were used as biological markers to infer stock structure of e. tetradactylum. parasites designated as 'temporary' biological markers were the copepod thysanote eleutheronemi, the acanthocephalan neoechinorhynchus topseyi, the nematode philometra rajani and hemiurid ... | 2009 | 20738489 |
| unicapsula species (myxosporea: trilosporidae) of australian marine fishes, including the description of unicapsula andersenae n. sp. in five teleost families off queensland, australia. | a survey of the myxosporean fauna of australian marine fishes revealed the presence of three previously unreported species of unicapsula (multivalvulida: trilosporidae) from sites off southeast queensland, off lizard island on the great barrier reef, queensland, and from jurien bay in western australia. morphometric data (spore, polar capsule and caudal appendage dimensions) combined with bayesian inference and maximum likelihood analyses of small subunit (ssu) and large subunit (lsu) ribosomal ... | 2013 | 23812600 |
| the genus lernaeenicus lesueur (copepoda, siphonostomatoida, pennellidae) in india: a checklist with notes on its taxonomy and ecology. | members of the pennellid genus lernaeenicus lesueur, 1824 (copepoda, siphonostomatoida) have frequently been recorded from commercially important fishes collected along the coasts of india. marine fish hosts from landing centres at nagapattinam and parangipettai tamil nadu, southeast coast of india, were examined for parasitic copepods between january 2011 and december 2013. a total of nine species including three unidentified species of lernaeenicus were recorded: (1) l. alatus rangnekar, 1962 ... | 2016 | 27811797 |
| new records of philometrids (nematoda: philometridae) from marine fishes off iraq, with the erection of two new species and the first description of the male of philometroides eleutheronemae moravec & manoharan, 2013. | based on light and scanning electron microscopical studies, the following five species of philometrid nematodes (nematoda: philometridae) are described from marine fishes from off basrah, southern iraq (arabian gulf): philometra iraqiensis n. sp. (females) from the abdominal cavity and ovary of the klunzinger's mullet liza klunzingeri (day) (mugiliformes: mugilidae), p. megalaspidis n. sp. (females) from the ovary of the torpedo scad megalaspis cordyla (linnaeus) (perciformes: carangidae), philo ... | 2016 | 26790678 |
| the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of eleutheronema tetradactylum (mugiliformes: polynemidae) and phylogenetic studies of mugiliformes. | to date, there has been much disagreement concerning the taxonomic status of eleutheronema. in this study, the complete mitogenome sequence of eleutheronema tetradactylum was determined and a maximum likelihood (ml) tree was constructed based on concatenated nucleotide sequences of 12 mitochondrial protein-coding genes. the complete mitogenome sequence is 16 490 bp in length, containing 13 protein-coding genes, two rrna genes, 22 trna genes, a putative control region (cr), and a light-strand rep ... | 2016 | 26471088 |
| acanthocercodes n. g. (monogenoidea: diplectanidae) for species parasitising threadfins (perciformes: polynemidae), with description of acanthocercodes bullardi n. sp. from the atlantic threadfin polydactylus octonemus (girard) and reassignment of three species of diplectanum monticelli, 1903 from the indo-pacific ocean. | acanthocercodes n. g. (diplectanidae) is proposed for acanthocercodes bullardi n. sp. and three previously described species of diplectanum all parasites of the gill lamellae of threadfins (perciformes: polynemidae). the new genus is characterised by species having peduncular spines composed of an anteriorly directed point and a flattened base from which an anterior root arises. members of the genus lack auxiliary spinous or sucker-like structures in the haptor. acanthocercodes bullardi n. sp. i ... | 2015 | 26063297 |
| philometrid nematodes (philometridae) from marine fishes off the northern coast of australia, including three new species. | based on light and scanning electron microscopical studies, the following nine species of philometridae (nemaoda: dracunculoidea) are described from female worms parasitizing marine perciform fishes belonging to six families off the northern coast australia (near darwin): philometra australiensis sp. n. from the swimbladder of the king threadfin polydactylus macrochir (günther) (polynemidae); p. epinepheli dewi et palm, 2013 from the operculum of the orange-spotted grouper epinephelus coioides ( ... | 2014 | 24684052 |
| the complete mitochondrial genome of the fourfinger threadfin eleutheronema tetradactylum (perciforms: polynemidae) and comparison of light strand replication origin within percoidei. | the complete mitochondrial genome of eleutheronema tetradactylum was determined, which was the first complete mitochondrial genome in polynemidae family. the mitochondrial genome was 16,474 base pairs in length, encoding a standard set of 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal rna genes, 22 trna genes and 2 main non-coding regions (the control region and the origin of the light strand replication). the overall base composition of e. tetradactylum is a 27.2%, c 29.9%, g 17.0% and t 25.9%, with a sl ... | 2014 | 23815331 |
| a review of the genus neoechinorhynchus (acanthocephala:neoechinorhynchidae) from australia with the description of two new species. | abstract eight species of neoechinorhynchus were reported from australian waters. neoechinorhynchus vittiformis n. sp. is described from eleutheronema tetradactylum (shaw). it can be distinguished from all its congeners by the following combination of characters: long cylindrical trunk without cuticular plaques, globular proboscis, proboscis armature with the anterior circle of hooks larger with simple roots and the middle and posterior hooks the same size and smaller, short neck, lemnisci nearl ... | 2013 | 23777304 |
| gonad-infecting philometrids (nematoda: philometridae) including four new species from marine fishes off the eastern coast of india. | based on light and scanning electron microscopical studies, the following five gonad-infecting species of the philometridae (nematoda: dracunculoidea) are described from marine perciform fishes off the eastern coast of india (bay of bengal): philometra sphyraenae sp. n. (males and females) from the pickhandle barracuda sphyraena jello cuvier (sphyraenidae), philometra gerrei sp. n. (males and females) from the whipfin silver-biddy gerres filamentosus cuvier (gerreidae), philometra otolithi sp. n ... | 2013 | 23724730 |
| levels and chemical speciation of arsenic in representative biota and sediments of a tropical mangrove wetland, india. | the general concern for arsenic in the marine environment is associated with its wide distribution and potential toxicity. in the present work, concentrations and chemical speciation of arsenic were characterized in sediments and representative biota from the indian sundarban, the largest continuous mangrove tract formed at the mouth of the hugli (ganges) river estuary, northeastern part of the bay of bengal. analyzed organisms included both shellfish (macoma birmanica, sanguinolaria acuminata a ... | 2013 | 23400359 |
| a new acanthocephalan family, the isthmosacanthidae (acanthocephala: echinorhynchida), with the description of isthmosacanthus fitzroyensis n. g., n. sp. from threadfin fishes (polynemidae) of northern australia. | isthmosacanthus fitzroyensis n. g., n. sp. is described from two species of protandrous fish, eleutheronema tetradactylum (shaw) and polydactylus macrochir (günther), from the waters around the coast of northern australian. the new species can be distinguished from all others by the following combination of characters: proboscis shape and armature (22 rows of 13-14 hooks), short neck, trunk spined anteriorly and having two swellings (one bulbous) with a narrow isthmus in between, long tubular le ... | 2012 | 22581246 |
| limited ecological population connectivity suggests low demands on self-recruitment in a tropical inshore marine fish (eleutheronema tetradactylum: polynemidae). | the diversity of geographic scales at which marine organisms display genetic variation mirrors the biophysical and ecological complexity of dispersal by pelagic larvae. yet little is known about the effect of larval ecology on genetic population patterns, partly because detailed data of larval ecology do not yet exist for most taxa. one species for which this data is available is eleutheronema tetradactylum, a tropical indo-west pacific shorefish. here, we use a partial sequence mitochondrial cy ... | 2011 | 21518062 |
| redescription of the fish parasite lernanthropus polynemi richiardi, 1881 (copepoda: siphonostomatoida) and relegation of two congeners to synonymy. | lernanthropus polynemi richiardi, 1881 is described, for the first time since its original discovery, based on the type-material found in the museum für naturkunde in berlin, germany. morphological features of this parasite, which infects the commercially-caught fish eleutheronema tetradactylum (shaw), are described and illustrated, including those of the male, which is described for the first time. the types of another species from the same host, l. lappaceus wilson, 1912, and deposited in the ... | 2002 | 12108411 |