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1 October 2006 Host Specificity of Lepeophtheirus crassus (Wilson and Bere) (Copepoda: Caligidae) Parasitic on the Marlin Sucker Remora osteochir (Cuvier) in the Atlantic Ocean
Ju-shey Ho, Bruce B. Collette, Ione Madinabeitia
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Abstract

Three species of remoras—Remora brachyptera (Lowe), Remora osteochir (Cuvier), and Remora remora (Linnaeus)—were collected from 4 species of billfishes—Istiophorus platypterus (Shaw), Makaira nigricans Lacepéde, Tetrapturus albidus Poey, and Tetrapturus pfluegeri Robins and de Sylva—on board a Japanese long-liner Shoyo Maru during her cruise in 2002 across the Atlantic. However, only the marlin sucker (R. osteochir) was found to carry a parasitic copepod, Lepeophtheirus crassus (Wilson and Bere, 1936). Although 12 species of parasitic copepods have been reported from billfishes around the world ocean, none of them is L. crassus. Thus, L. crassus is considered a parasite specific to the marlin sucker.

Ju-shey Ho, Bruce B. Collette, and Ione Madinabeitia "Host Specificity of Lepeophtheirus crassus (Wilson and Bere) (Copepoda: Caligidae) Parasitic on the Marlin Sucker Remora osteochir (Cuvier) in the Atlantic Ocean," Journal of Parasitology 92(5), 1113-1115, (1 October 2006). https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-837R.1
Published: 1 October 2006
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