Since 2014, an invasive alien fish species, lionfish, Pterois miles (Bennett, 1828) has been started to distribute in the Turkish Mediterranean Sea coasts and spread out Aegean Sea. In present study, a Cymothoid parasite, Nerocila bivittata (Risso, 1816) is reported from pectoral fin of P. caught Gulf Iskenderun (Northeastern Mediterranean) Bodrum, Turkey (Aegean Coast). This study first record...

Parasites significantly influence food webs and ecosystems and occur all over the world in almost every animal group. Within crustaceans there are numerous examples of ectoparasites; for example, representatives of the isopod group Cymothoidae. These obligatory parasitic isopods are relatively poorly studied regarding their functional morphology. Here we present new details of the morphological...

Seven cymothoid species are identified in parasitological studies conducted the Dardanelles Strait between May 2018- 2020. The Cymothoids as follows: Mothocya epimerica Costa, 1851, Nerocila bivittata (Risso, 1816), Anilocra frontalis H. Milne Edwards, 1840, Ceratothoa oestroides 1826), parallela (Otto, 1828), italica Schiödte & Meinert, 1883, Emetha audouini (H. 1840). A. and C. found ...

The aim of this work was to present a preliminary knowledge of the parasitic copepods of marine fish of Turkey. In this study, four parasitic crustaceans were reported from five different fish species found in Turkish seas: Lepeophtheirus europaensis (Zeddam, Berrebi, Renaud, Raibaut & Gabrion, 1988) was found on the gills of the European flounder, Platichtys flesus (Linnaeus, 1758 (Pleuronecti...

Seasonal occurrence of metazoan ectoparasites is described for the first time in marine European flounder, Platichthys flesus (L.). The parasitofauna, in this study monitored during 1 year, was found to be similar to that previously recorded for flounder. Moreover, specimens of Caligus sp. Müller, 1785 and Lepeophtheirus pectoralis (Copepoda: Caligidae), Acanthochondria cornuta (Copepoda: Chond...