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Leeches, lice and lampreys : a natural history of skin and gill parasites of fishes /

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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 Char...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kearn, Graham C.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer, [2004]
Subjects:
Fishes > Parasites.
Leeches.
Copepoda.
Branchiura (Crustacea)
Lampreys.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.