Abstract
Documentation of fish parasites is important in describing the biodiversity of a given water body. In this study, the first record of metazoan parasite fauna of long snouted lancetfish (Alepisaurus ferox) and swordfish (Xiphias gladius) of the eastern Arabian Sea is presented. Three cestodes (Pelichnibothrium speciosum, Tentacularia coryphaenae and Hepatoxylon trichiuri) and one trematode (Botulus microporus) were collected from the lancetfish. Parasite prevalence was 98.04 % and the average intensity was 9.58. In the swordfish, all the samples were infected, and the average parasite intensity was 51.4. Five cestodes (Hepatoxylon trichiuri, Fistulicola plicatus, Nybelinia bisulcata, Nybelinia lingualis and Tentacularia coryphaenae), at least two species of nematodes (Hysterothylacium incurvum and unidentified nematodes), one species of copepode (Pennella instructa), and a trematode (Hirudinella ventricosa) were collected from the swordfish.
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