Characterizing species occurrence, abundance, and distribution is critical to the
management of natural resources and the conservation of biodiversity. In the Western …

We present a review of the aquatic mammal species occurring in the Mexican Caribbean.
Several published sources were reviewed to find information about aquatic mammals …

Species of the genus Pseudoterranova, infect kogiid cetaceans and pinnipeds. However,
there is mounting molecular evidence that those from cetaceans and pinnipeds are not …

In the present work, a total of 339 nominal taxa of helminths (53 trematodes, 46 cestodes, 12
acanthocephalans, 227 nem-atodes, and 1 hirudinean), associated with 136 taxa of wild …

In the present study, 407 anisakid nematodes, collected from 11 different species of
cetaceans of the families Delphinidae, Kogiidae, Physeteridae, and Ziphiidae, from the …

The genus Pseudoterranova includes parasite species of cetaceans and pinnipeds. The
third stage larva (L3) of seal-infecting species occur in second intermediate or paratenic fish …

Anisakidae are represented mainly by species of Anisakis Dujardin, 1845, Pseudoterranova
Krabbe, 1878, and Contracaecum Railliet and Henry, 1913. Integrative taxonomy, based on …

Background Because agriculture and offshore oil extraction are significant economic
activities in the southern Gulf of Mexico, high concentrations of nutrients and hydrocarbons …

Anisakids from 5 different species of cetacean, Kogia breviceps, Peponocephala electra,
Stenella clymene, Stenella longirostris and Steno bredanensis, were submitted to genetic …

The general consensus of a rapidly changing ocean ecosystem being affected by
anthropogenic activities needs to be understood in relation to both wildlife and human …