Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 680 g
A Natural History of Skin and Gill Parasites of Fishes
Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 680 g
ISBN: 978-90-481-6747-0
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
The following closely interwoven themes are considered for each group of parasites: how they find their hosts, how they attach, feed and reproduce, the damage they inflict and how the host’s immune system retaliates. Based on the British fauna, but extending where appropriate to examples from North America, Australia and elsewhere, the book is essential reading, not just for the professional parasitologist, but also for anyone interested in fishes and in this neglected field of British natural history.
With the enquiring naturalist in mind, terms and concepts are explained as they arise, backed up by a glossary, and the text is liberally illustrated. An introductory chapter on fish biology sets the scene and common fish names are used throughout, as well as scientific names.
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The hosts.- ‘Protozoans’.- Monogenean (flatworm) skin parasites – Entobdella.- Other monogenean skin parasites.- Monogenean gill parasites – monopisthocotyleans.- Monogenean gill parasites – polyopisthocotyleans.- Leeches.- Siphonostomatoid copepods: (1) Fish lice – caligids.- Siphonostomatoid copepods: (2) pennellids.- Siphonostomatoid copepods: (3) lernaeopodids.- Cyclopoid copepods – the anchor worm.- Poecilostomatoid copepods.- The common fish louse – Argulus.- A mesoparasitic barnacle – Anelasma.- Isopods.- Unionacean molluscs (naiads).- Lampreys.- Conclusions.