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Table 1.
Prevalence (P) and mean intensity ± standard deviation (MI ± SD) of infection of metazoan parasites found in two species of deep-sea sharks from the SEPO.
| E. granulosus | A. nasutus | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parasite species | Stage | Habitat | P | MI ± SD | P | MI ± SD |
| Monogenea | ||||||
| Squalonchocotyle aff. spinacis | A | G | 5.1 | 1.2 ± 0.4 | – | – |
| Asthenocotyle sp. | A | S | 9.3 | 1.5 ± 0.5 | – | – |
| Microbothrium sp. | A | S | – | – | 15.3 | 24.0 ± 3.0 |
| Calicotyle sp. | A | S | 1 | 2 ± 0 | – | – |
| Monocotylidae gen. sp. | A | S | 3.4 | 1.5 ± 0.6 | – | – |
| Digenea | ||||||
| Otodistomum sp. | A | I | 5.1 | 1.2 ± 0.4 | – | – |
| Cestoda | ||||||
| Aporhynchus sp. | A | SV | 5.9 | 1.2 ± 0.4 | – | – |
| Plesiorhynchus sp. | A | SV | 17.8 | 5.6 ± 4.9 | – | – |
| Hepatoxylon sp. | L | Me | 5.1 | 1.3 ± 0.5 | 53.8 | 1.7 ± 1.4 |
| Trypanorhyncha gen. sp. | L | Me | – | – | 7.7 | 1.0 ± 0 |
| Cestoda unidentified | SV | 12.7 | 2.2 ± 2.1 | – | – | |
| Nematoda | ||||||
| Anisakis sp. | L | I, M | 13.3 | 1.0 ± 0 | 15.4 | 1.5 ± 0.5 |
| Mooleptus rabuka | A | I | – | – | 7.7 | 1.0 ± 0 |
| Copepoda | ||||||
| Lernaeopodidae gen sp. | A | B | 2.5 | 1.0 ± 0 | – | – |
| Neoalbionella sp. | A | F | 12.7 | 1.1 ± 0.5 | – | – |
| Thecostraca | ||||||
| Anelasma squalicola | A | S, E, F, Mo | 13.6 | 2.4 ± 0 | – | – |
| Annelida | ||||||
| Piscicolidae gen sp. | A | S | 0.8 | 1.0 ± 0 | – | – |
A = adult, E = eyes, F = fins, G = Gills, I = intestine, L = Larval stage, Me = mesenteries, Mo = Mouth, SV = Spiral valve, S = Skin.
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