Departamento de Biología Comparada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior s/n, C. P. 04510, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico.
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
J Parasitol. 2020 Oct 1;106(5):689-698. doi: 10.1645/20-80.
Information regarding trichodinid ectoparasites on marine fishes of North America is relatively scarce. In this study, 5 ciliate species from the family Trichodinidae were found associated with 8 fish hosts from the rocky intertidal zone of the western coast of the Baja California Peninsula (BCP), Mexico. All of the host-parasite relationships recorded here are new. Furthermore, 3 of the trichodinid species found are recorded for the first time for Mexico. Trichodinids taxa do not show a noticeable distributional gradient along the BCP, which suggests a wide-continuous distribution of the species throughout the study area.
有关北美的海洋鱼类 Trichodinid 外寄生虫的信息相对较少。在这项研究中,在墨西哥下加利福尼亚半岛(BCP)西海岸的潮间带岩石区发现了 8 种鱼类宿主,其中有 5 种纤毛虫物种属于 Trichodinidae 科。这里记录的所有宿主 - 寄生虫关系都是新的。此外,发现的 3 种 Trichodinid 物种也是墨西哥首次记录。 Trichodinid 分类群在 BCP 上没有明显的分布梯度,这表明该物种在整个研究区域内广泛连续分布。