A new species of Huffmanela (Nematoda: Trichosomoididae) parasitizing Colomesus psittacus (Tetraodontiformes) from Marajó Island, Pará State, Brazil [PDF]
The puffer fish Colomesus psittacus, is not commercialized on Marajó Island. They are captured as bycacth and discarded dead in the environment in artisanal fisheries that occur in the estuaries of northern Brazil.
Elaine Lopes de Carvalho +5 more
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A new perspective on phylogeny and evolution of tetraodontiform fishes (Pisces: Acanthopterygii) based on whole mitochondrial genome sequences: Basal ecological diversification? [PDF]
Background The order Tetraodontiformes consists of approximately 429 species of fishes in nine families. Members of the order exhibit striking morphological diversity and radiated into various habitats such as freshwater, brackish and coastal waters ...
Katoh Masaya +5 more
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High Diversity of Long Terminal Repeat Retrotransposons in Compact Vertebrate Genomes: Insights from Genomes of Tetraodontiformes [PDF]
This study aimed to investigate the evolutionary profile (including diversity, activity, and abundance) of retrotransposons (RTNs) with long terminal repeats (LTRs) in ten species of Tetraodontiformes.
Bingqing Wang +8 more
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DNA barcoding, identification, and validation of the pufferfish (Order: Tetraodontiformes) in China coastal waters [PDF]
The order Tetraodontiformes are one of the most unique groups of teleostean fish, exhibiting highly derived and greatly diversified phenotypes. It is a difficult task for both professionals and nonprofessionals to accurately identify these species only ...
Kaiying Liu +7 more
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A new record of the puffer fish Takifugu oblongus (Bloch, 1786) from the northern Persian Gulf, Iran [PDF]
The new record of a puffer fish âTakifugu oblongus Bloch, 1786â (Tetraodontiformes, Tetraodontidae) is recorded for the first time the muddy shores of the inter-tidal zone of Bandar-e-Abbas city, in the northern Persian Gulf, Iran in March 2011.
M. Naderi email ; P. Zare; E. Azvar; D. Pitassy
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New records of two teleost species from two insular areas of the western equatorial Atlantic [PDF]
We report the first record of two teleost species from two archipelagos in the western equatorial Atlantic. We recorded the occurrence of Cantherhines pullus (Ranzani, 1842) (Monacanthidae, Tetraodontiformes) from the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, a ...
Rodrigo Xavier Soares +4 more
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The greenfin horse-faced filefish (Thamnaconus septentrionalis) is susceptible to recurrent Amyloodinium ocellatum (AO) infestation over the grow-out production cycle.
Li-Guo Yang +9 more
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Molecular analysis of endocrine disruption in hornyhead turbot at wastewater outfalls in southern california using a second generation multi-species microarray. [PDF]
Sentinel fish hornyhead turbot (Pleuronichthysverticalis) captured near wastewater outfalls are used for monitoring exposure to industrial and agricultural chemicals of ~ 20 million people living in coastal Southern California.
Angert, Mila +15 more
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Recent examinations of cucullanid nematodes (Cucullanidae) from marine fishes off New Caledonia, collected in the years 2004–2009, revealed the presence of the following five new species of Cucullanus Müller, 1777, all parasitic in Perciformes ...
Moravec František, Justine Jean-Lou
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Additional records of Lobotes surinamensis, Caranx crysos, Enchelycore anatina, and Lagocephalus sceleratus (Actinopterygii) in the Adriatic Sea [PDF]
Additional records of four fish species are reported from the Adriatic Sea are reported: Atlantic tripletail, Lobotes surinamensis (Bloch, 1790) (Perciformes: Lobotidae); blue runner, Caranx crysos (Mitchill, 1815) (Perciformes: Carangidae); fangtooth ...
J. Dulčić +5 more
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