| relationships between four novel ceratomyxid parasites from the gall bladders of labrid fishes from heron island, queensland, australia. | ceratomyxid parasites from the gall bladder of fishes from the family labridae were examined for their taxonomic identity and their relatedness to other species of myxozoans. this paper describes four novel species ceratomyxa choerodonae n. sp. from choerodon cyanodus; ceratomyxa cheilinae n. sp. from cheilinus chlorourus; ceratomyxa oxycheilinae n. sp. from oxycheilinus digramma; and ceratomyxa thalassomae n. sp. from thalassoma lunare. each species is characterised morphologically and small su ... | 2008 | 18252274 |
| endoparasite communities of five fish species (labridae: cheilininae) from lizard island: how important is the ecology and phylogeny of the hosts? | the parasite community of animals is generally influenced by host physiology, ecology, and phylogeny. therefore, sympatric and phylogenetically related hosts with similar ecologies should have similar parasite communities. to test this hypothesis we surveyed the endoparasites of 5 closely related cheilinine fishes (labridae) from the great barrier reef. they were cheilinus chlorourus, c. trilobatus, c. fasciatus, epibulus insidiator and oxycheilinus diagramma. we examined the relationship betwee ... | 2006 | 16332286 |