ARGUN AKİF ÖZAK, İBRAHİM DEMİRKALE, ALPER YANAR

First record of two species of parasitic copepods on immigrant pufferfishes (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) caught in the eastern Mediterranean Sea

Caligidae ve Taeniacanthidae familyalarına dahil iki parazitik kopepod türünün, İndo-pasifik kökenli olup doğu Akdenize yerleşen göçmen Balon balıkları üzerinden ilk kez bildirimi yapılmıştır. Bildirimi yapılan parazitlerden Caligus fugu Yamaguti ve Yamasu, 1959 Kızıl denizden göç etmiş balon balıkları, Lagocephalus suezensis Clark ve Gohar, 1953 ve Lagocephalus spadiceus (Richardson, 1845)un ağız boşluğunda; Taeniacanthus lagocephali Pearse, 1952 ise yine L. spadiceusun solungaç filamentleri ve solungaç kapağının iç kısımlarında bulunmuştur. Burada bildirimi yapılan Caligus fugu, L. suezensis ve L. spadiceus için yeni bir parazit kaydı oluşturmaktadır. Bildirilen parazitlerin Akdenizden daha önce kaydı bulunmamaktadır. Konak balıkların ikisi de Türkiye Akdeniz kıyılarından yakalanmıştır.

Doğu Akdeniz den yakalanan balon balıkları (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) nda iki parazittik kopepod türünün ilk kaydı

Two species of parasitic copepods, representing families Caligidae and Taeniacanthidae, are reported for the first time from two immigrant species of pufferfishes (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae), indigenous for the Indo-pacific region but now established in the eastern Mediterranean. The recorded parasites are: Caligus fugu Yamaguti and Yamasu, 1959 found in the mouth cavity of two immigrant species from the Red Sea: Lagocephalus suezensis Clark and Gohar, 1953 and of Lagocephalus spadiceus (Richardson, 1845) and Taeniacanthus lagocephali Pearse, 1952 found on the gill filaments and inner operculum of L. spadiceus (Richardson, 1845). The presently reported finding of Caligus fugu constitutes a new parasite record for L. suezensis and L. spadiceus. Neither of the two copepod species have previously been recorded in the Mediterranean. Both fish hosts were caught in the Mediterranean waters off the Turkish coast.

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