Leeches, lice and lampreys : a natural history of skin and gill parasites of fishes
Many different kinds of animals have adopted a parasitic life style on the skin and gills of marine and freshwater fishes, including protozoans, flatworms, leeches, a range of crustaceans and even some vertebrates (lampreys). There is a parasitic barnacle, described first in the 19th century by Charles Darwin, fish lice that change sex and bivalve molluscs parasitic only when young. This book explores for the first time in one volume, the remarkable biology of these little known and frequently bizarre animals. 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 hosts 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
1 online resource (xvi, 432 pages) : illustrations
9781402029264, 1402029268
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Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The hosts
2 Protozoans
3 Monogenean (flatworm) skin parasites Entobdella
4 Other monogenean skin parasites
5 Monogenean gill parasites monopisthocotyleans
6 Monogenean gill parasites polyopisthocotyleans
7 Leeches
8 Siphonostomatoid copepods: (1) Fish lice caligids
9 Siphonostomatoid copepods: (2) pennellids
10 Siphonostomatoid copepods: (3) lernaeopodids
11 Cyclopoid copepods the anchor worm
12 Poecilostomatoid copepods
13 The common fish louse Argulus
14 A mesoparasitic barnacle Anelasma
15 Isopods
16 Unionacean mollusks (naiads)
17 Lampreys
18 Conclusions
Appendix 1 Classified list of fishes with common and scientific names
Appendix 2 Classified list of genera of epizoic and parasitic invertebrates
Glossary
References
Index of scientific and common names
Subject index
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