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Table 4

Community of metazoan parasites in Mustelus asterias according to the sex: total prevalence (P ± CI %), mean abundance (A ± CI) and mean intensity (I ± CI) of metazoan parasites in immature females (7) and immature males (13). Myxosporeans were not numbered.

  Females (7) Males (13)


Parasite taxa P ± CI % A ± CI I ± CI Range P ± CI % A ± CI I ± CI Range
Myxozoa                
Unidentified Myxosporea 28.6 (8.2–64.1) 30.8 (12.7–57.6)
Monogena                
Erpocotyle laevis 85.7 (48.7–97.4) 7.43 ± 8.14 8.67 ± 9.30 1–26 46.2 (23.2–70.9) 1.46 ± 1.08 3.17 ± 1.19 2–5
Digenea                
Ptychogonimus megastomum 14.3 (2.6–51.3) 1.57 ± 3.72 11.00 11 23.1 (25.1–84.2) 1.00 ± 1.20 4.33 ± 2.81 3–6
Cestoda                
Anthobothrium sp. 28.6 (8.2–64.1) 4.14 ± 6.93 14.5 ± 23.67 9–20 30.8 (12.7–57.6) 0.62 ± 0.67 2.00 ± 1.60 1–3
Eutetrarhynchus sp. 28.6 (8.2–64.1) 0.71 ± 1.12 2.50 ± 2.15 2–3 92.3 (66.7–98.6) 4.77 ± 3.18 5.17 ± 3.36 1–20
Heteronybelinia robusta         7.7 (1.4–33.3) 0.15 ± 0.33 2.00 2
Orygmatobothrium sp. 14.3 (2.6–51.3) 0.14 ± 0.34 1.00 1        
Phyllobothrium sp.         7.7 (1.4–33.3) 0.08 ± 0.17 1.00 1
Symcallio leuckarti         7.7 (1.4–33.3) 0.08 ± 0.17 1.00 1
Nematoda                
Acanthocheilus rotundatus 57.1 (25.1–84.2) 3.43 ± 4.55 6.00 ± 7.77 1–13 84.6 (57.8–95.7) 4.92 ± 2.59 5.82 ± 2.72 1–13
Proleptus obtusus 14.3 (2.6–51.3) 0.29 ± 0.68 2.00 2 15.4 (4.3–42.2) 2.08 ± 4.31 13.50 ± 53.79 1–26
Copepoda                
Kroyeria lineata 57.1 (25.1–84.2) 3.86 ± 5.02 6.75 ± 8.43 1–12 23.1 (25.1–84.2) 20.08 ± 29.46 87.00 ± 139.57 5–155

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