Santoro Mario, Palomba Marialetizia, Mattiucci Simonetta, Osca David, Crocetta Fabio
Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy.
Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Front Vet Sci. 2020 Oct 19;7:579728. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2020.579728. eCollection 2020.
Studies describing the parasite fauna of sunfish species from the Mediterranean Sea are to date limited, despite information gained through parasitological examination may reveal unknown ecological and biological aspects of both hosts and parasites. Moreover, recent molecular studies on sunfish taxonomy revealed the presence of two species belonging to the genus in the Mediterranean basin, namely and . These two fish taxa have long been synonymized or confused among them, which implies that the majority of the studies carried out so far reported the parasites infecting both species under a single host species, generally referred to as . We hereby investigated the parasite fauna of a 43 cm long specimen from the Mediterranean Sea, whose identification was confirmed by molecular tool, and provided the first evidence of the occurrence of the nematode (s.s.) and of the cestode in species anywhere. The use of helminth species as biological tags for the sunfish is also discussed.
尽管通过寄生虫学检查获得的信息可能揭示宿主和寄生虫未知的生态和生物学方面，但迄今为止，关于地中海翻车鱼物种寄生虫群落的研究仍然有限。此外，最近关于翻车鱼分类学的分子研究表明，在地中海盆地存在两种属于该属的物种，即 和 。这两种鱼类分类群长期以来一直被视为同义词或相互混淆，这意味着迄今为止进行的大多数研究报告的是感染这两个物种的寄生虫，都被归为单一宿主物种，通常称为 。我们在此研究了一条来自地中海的43厘米长的 标本的寄生虫群落，其身份通过分子工具得到确认，并首次提供了线虫 （狭义）和绦虫 在 物种中出现的证据。本文还讨论了使用蠕虫物种作为翻车鱼的生物标记。
