Monogenea of fishes from the lagoon flats of Palmyra Atoll in the Central Pacific

A survey of the monogeneans of fishes from the lagoon flats of Palmyra Atoll detected 16 species already reported from the Indo-West Pacific faunal region. A total of 653 individual fish from 44 species were collected from the sand flats bordering the lagoon of the atoll. Eighteen species of fish we...

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Published in:ZooKeys 2017-11, Vol.713 (713), p.1-23
Main Authors: Vidal-Martínez, Víctor Manuel, Soler-Jiménez, Lilia Catherinne, Aguirre-Macedo, Ma Leopoldina, Mclaughlin, John, Jaramillo, Alejandra G, Shaw, Jenny C, James, Anna, Hechinger, Ryan F, Kuris, Armand M, Lafferty, Kevin D
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Language:English
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Acanthurus xanthopterus
Chaetodon auriga
Chaetodon lunula
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Distribution
Environmental aspects
Fish
Fishes
Geographical isolation
Haliotrema
Monogeneans
Mulloidichthys flavolineatus
New records
Species composition
Zoology
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Summary:A survey of the monogeneans of fishes from the lagoon flats of Palmyra Atoll detected 16 species already reported from the Indo-West Pacific faunal region. A total of 653 individual fish from 44 species were collected from the sand flats bordering the lagoon of the atoll. Eighteen species of fish were infected with monogeneans. The monogenean species recovered were: on , , , , and ; on ; on and ; on ; on and ; on ; on and ; on ; on ; on ; on and ; and on ; on , and ; on ; and on . All these monogenean-host combinations represent new geographical records. The monogenean species composition of the Palmyra Atoll is similar to that of the Hawaiian Islands. However, the number of species recovered was lower compared with other localities within the Indo-West Pacific, perhaps due to the geographical isolation of Palmyra Atoll.
ISSN:1313-2989
1313-2970
DOI:10.3897/zookeys.713.14732