Invertebrates and their roles in coral reef ecosystems

PW Glynn, IC Enochs - Coral reefs: an ecosystem in transition, 2010 - Springer
There are some fundamental generalizations that can be made about the biology and
ecology of invertebrates associated with coral reefs. For example, it is widely accepted that …

The Lepocreadiidae (Digenea) of fishes of the north-east Atlantic: review of the genera Opechona Looss, 1907 and Prodistomum Linton, 1910

RA Bray, DI Gibson - Systematic Parasitology, 1990 - Springer
Abstract The genera Opechona Looss and Prodistomum Linton are redefined: the latter is re-
established, its diagnostic character being the lack of a uroproct. Pharyngora Lebour and …

Parasitism in reef fish communities: evaluating the roles of host traits, habitat use, and phylogeny on infection by Scaphanocephalus (Trematoda)

RJ Malawauw, J Piaskowy, LJV ter Horst, DM Calhoun… - Coral Reefs, 2024 - Springer
Parasites represent a critically understudied component of reef communities—a knowledge
gap that has become more evident as infectious diseases emerge. Here, we test the roles of …

Digeneans of the family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925 from the southern Great Barrier Reef, including a new genus and three new species

RA Bray, TH Cribb - Journal of Natural History, 1989 - Taylor & Francis
The following Digenea are described, recorded or figured from Heron Island and Fairfax
Island in the southern Great Barrier Reef, off Queensland, northeastern Australia. Opegaster …

On the systematics of some marine haploporids (Trematoda) with the description of a new species of Megasolena Linton, 1910

MJ Andres, EE Pulis, SS Curran, RM Overstreet - Parasitology International, 2018 - Elsevier
Megasolena mikra sp. nov. is described from the queen angelfish, Holacanthus ciliaris
(Linnaeus), off Florida, USA. The new species can be differentiated from all other species of …

Parasites of the vermilion snapper, Rhomboplites aurorubens (Cuvier), from the western Atlantic Ocean

AT Claxton, AD Fuehring, MJ Andres… - Comparative …, 2017 - BioOne
Eighty-three Vermilion snappers (Rhomboplites aurorubens) from the northern Gulf of
Mexico and 1 from off Puerto Rico, USA, were examined for parasites. The survey resulted in …

Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of Okinawa, Japan

WG Dyer, EH Williams Jr, LB Williams - The Journal of parasitology, 1988 - JSTOR
Between May and September 1985, 348 fishes representing 50 families, 107 genera, and
152 species from the coastal waters of Okinawa were examined for digenetic flukes. Ten …

A new species, new host records and life cycle data for lepocreadiids (Digenea) of pomacentrid fishes from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

B Duong, SC Cutmore, TH Cribb, KA Pitt… - Systematic …, 2022 - Springer
A new species of lepocreadiid, Opechonoides opisthoporus n. sp., is described infecting 12
pomacentrid fish species from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, with Abudefduf whitleyi Allen …

[HTML][HTML] Intestinal helminths of Lutjanus griseus (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) from three environments in Yucatán (Mexico), with a checklist of its parasites in the Gulf of …

N Argáez-García, S Guillén-Hernández… - Revista mexicana de …, 2010 - scielo.org.mx
A survey of intestinal helminth parasites of the gray snapper, Lutjanus griseus, collected at
the estuarine coastal lagoon of Celestún and off the coast of the localities of Chelem and …

[PDF][PDF] Homalometron dowgialloi sp. n.(Homalometridae) from Haemulon flavolineatum and additional records of digenetic trematodes of marine fishes in the West …

WG Dyer, EH Williams… - Journal of the …, 1992 - bionames.org
A total of 345 marine fishes representing 27 families, 31 genera, and 44 species from the
coastal waters of southwestern Puerto Rico and Mona and Desecheo islands was examined …