Ho Ju-shey, Collete Bruce B, Madinabeitia Ione
Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Long Beach, California, 90840-3702, USA.
J Parasitol. 2006 Oct;92(5):1113-5. doi: 10.1645/GE-837R.1.
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.
2002年，在一艘名为“祥洋丸”的日本延绳钓渔船上，从4种旗鱼——平鳍旗鱼（Istiophorus platypterus，肖）、黑皮旗鱼（Makaira nigricans，拉塞佩德）、白枪鱼（Tetrapturus albidus，波伊）和弗氏枪鱼（Tetrapturus pfluegeri，罗宾斯和德西尔瓦）身上采集到了3种䲟鱼——短鳍䲟（Remora brachyptera，洛）、骨䲟（Remora osteochir，居维叶）和䲟鱼（Remora remora，林奈）。然而，仅发现骨䲟（R. osteochir）携带一种寄生桡足类动物——粗壮鱼虱（Lepeophtheirus crassus，威尔逊和贝雷，1936年）。尽管在世界各大洋的旗鱼身上已报道了12种寄生桡足类动物，但均不是粗壮鱼虱。因此，粗壮鱼虱被认为是骨䲟特有的寄生虫。
