First record of the snapper-choking isopod<i>Cymothoa excisa</i>(Isopoda: Cymothoidae) parasitizing invasive lionfish<i>Pterois volitans</i>(Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae)

Aguilar‐Perera, Alfonso; Quijano-Puerto, Luis; Carrillo-Flota, Evelyn del Carmen; Williams, Ernest H.; Bunkley-Williams, Lucy

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“…Transferring juveniles could attach anywhere in the mouth or throat of predators and then crawl to their adult position. In contrast, adult transfers attach wherever they can and do not migrate (Williams and Bunkley-Williams 1994;Aguilar-Perera et al 2018).…”

Section: New Life Cycle: Micro-male Life Cyclementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Isopods in trap, net, and trawl fisheries are well documented to frequently abandon their host and sometimes enter a different fish host. Three cases of natural prey-to-predator isopod transfers have been described (Williams and Bunkley-Williams 1994;Aguilar-Perera et al 2018), and adult and juvenile isopods have successfully, experimentally, been transferred between the same and different host species (e.g. .…”

Section: New Life Cycle: Micro-male Life Cyclementioning

confidence: 99%

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Life Cycle and Life History Strategies of Parasitic Crustacea

Williams

Bunkley-Williams

2019

Parasitic Crustacea

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Different parasitic life strategies are described including four new life cycles: complex rebrooding, micro-male, mesoparasite and prey-predator transfer. Four new life cycle behaviours are named: nursery hiding, mid-moult stage, positive precursor (intraspecific antagonism) and negative precursor (ambush strategy). Further strategies discussed are opossum attack, double parasitism (doubling of the normal reproductive set), duplex arrangement (separated male-female pairs), simple rebrooding, and describing how displaced parasites and superinfections may partly elucidate life cycles. Proportional stunting masks life history effects of parasitism; cuckoo copepods are true parasites and not just associates; burrowing barnacles (acrothoracicans) are not parasites. Further findings based on life cycle information: branchiurans and pentastomes are possibly not related; firefly seed shrimp are not parasites; copepod pre-adult life cycle stages are common in the western pacific but rare in Caribbean; harpacticoids on vertebrates are not parasites; cuckoo copepods are true parasites; explained the importance of pennellid intermediate hosts. Crustacean parasite life cycles are largely unknown (1% of species). Most crustacean life cycles represent minor modifications from the ancestral freeliving mode. Crustacean parasites have less complex and less modified life cycles than other major parasite groups. This limits their exploitation of, and effectiveness, in parasitism. However, these life cycles will be an advantage in Global Change. Most metazoan parasites will be eliminated while crustaceans (and nematodes) will inherit the new world of parasites.

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Section: New Life Cycle: Micro-male Life Cyclementioning

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Section: New Life Cycle: Micro-male Life Cyclementioning

confidence: 99%

Life Cycle and Life History Strategies of Parasitic Crustacea

Williams

Bunkley-Williams

2019

Parasitic Crustacea

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“…Cymothoa spp. have been reported to be distributed in a few regions around the world (Trilles et al 2011, Luque et al 2013, Hadfield et al 2013, Joca et al 2015, Olivas et al 2016, Martin et al 2016, Ortiz & Lalana 2018, Aguilar-Perera et al 2018. Nonetheless, despite the importance of Cymothoa spp.…”

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Global distribution patterns and geographic range of Cymothoa Fabricius, 1793 (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) associated with host fish

TAVARES-DIAS,

OLIVEIRA

2024

An. Acad. Bras. Ciênc.

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Over recent years, fish parasites of the genus Cymothoa Fabricius, 1793, have received increased attention due to both their ecological and their economic importance to aquaculture and fishery. As the studies about Cymothoa have increased this improve our understanding on the host specificity and distribution of these parasites. The aim of this paper was to review the current global geographic distribution, distribution patterns and parasite-host interactions patterns of Cymothoa spp. associated with fish from marine and brackish water bodies around the world. A total of 144 samples were analyzed, from which 23 species of Cymothoa were found parasitizing 84 teleost fish species of 35 families and 20 orders. Most of these parasites were found in the mouth of the host fish, including in wild fish. The highest occurrence of parasites was found in host species belonging to the families Carangidae and Lutjanidae. Host specificity was an important factor in the geographic distribution of Cymothoa species as also environmental temperature. Cymothoa indica, Cymothoa exigua and Cymothoa excisa were the species with lowest specificity for host family and widest geographic distribution.

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Checklist of Parasitic Isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda) Infesting Marine Decapod and Fishes Off Mexico’s Coasts

Aguilar‐Perera

2021

Thalassas

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First record of the snapper-choking isopodCymothoa excisa(Isopoda: Cymothoidae) parasitizing invasive lionfishPterois volitans(Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae)

Cited by 4 publications

References 20 publications

Life Cycle and Life History Strategies of Parasitic Crustacea

Life Cycle and Life History Strategies of Parasitic Crustacea

Global distribution patterns and geographic range of Cymothoa Fabricius, 1793 (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) associated with host fish

Checklist of Parasitic Isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda) Infesting Marine Decapod and Fishes Off Mexico’s Coasts

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