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Parasites of recruiting coral reef fish larvae in New Caledonia |
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| Authors: | Thomas H Cribb Sylvie Pichelin Vincent Dufour Rodney A Bray Claude Chauvet Elizabeth Faliex Ren Galzin Cdrik M Lo Alain Lo-Yat Serge Morand Mark C Rigby Pierre Sasal |
| Institution: | a Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia b Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, URA 1453 CNRS, Université de Perpignan, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France c Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK d Laboratoire d'Etudes des Resources Vivantes et de l'Environnement Marin, Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa, New Caledonia e Centre de Biologie et d'Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne, UMR 5555 CNRS, Université de Perpignan, Av. de Villeneuve, 66022 Perpignan Cedex, France f Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States |
| Abstract: | Recruiting coral reef fish larvae from 38 species and 19 families from New Caledonia were examined for parasites. We found 13 parasite species (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea, Cestoda and Trematoda) but no acanthocephalan, crustacean or nematode parasites. Over 23% of individual fish were infected. Didymozoid metacercariae were the most abundant parasites. We conclude that most of the parasites are pelagic species that become ‘lost’ once the fish larvae have recruited to the reef. Larval coral reef fish probably contribute little to the dispersal of the parasites of the adult fish so that parasite dispersal is more difficult than that of the fish themselves. |
| Keywords: | Coral reef Parasites Didymozoidae Fish larvae Dispersal |
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