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Parasites from the Red Lionfish, Pterois Volitans from the Gulf of Mexico Gulf and Caribbean Research Volume 27 Issue 1 2016 Parasites from the Red Lionfish, Pterois volitans from the Gulf of Mexico Alexander Q. Fogg Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, [email protected] Carlos F. Ruiz Auburn University, [email protected] Stephen S. Curran The University of Southern Mississippi, [email protected] Stephen A. Bullard Auburn University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/gcr Part of the Biodiversity Commons, Marine Biology Commons, and the Zoology Commons Recommended Citation Fogg, A. Q., C. F. Ruiz, S. S. Curran and S. A. Bullard. 2016. Parasites from the Red Lionfish, Pterois volitans from the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf and Caribbean Research 27 (1): SC1-SC5. Retrieved from https://aquila.usm.edu/gcr/vol27/iss1/7 DOI: https://doi.org/10.18785/gcr.2701.07 This Short Communication is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Gulf and Caribbean Research by an authorized editor of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact [email protected]. VOLUME 25 VOLUME GULF AND CARIBBEAN Volume 25 RESEARCH March 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS GULF AND CARIBBEAN SAND BOTTOM MICROALGAL PRODUCTION AND BENTHIC NUTRIENT FLUXES ON THE NORTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO NEARSHORE SHELF RESEARCH Jeffrey G. Allison, M. E. Wagner, M. McAllister, A. K. J. Ren, and R. A. Snyder....................................................................................1—8 WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT SPECIES RICHNESS AND DISTRIBUTION ON THE OUTER—SHELF SOUTH TEXAS BANKS? Harriet L. Nash, Sharon J. Furiness, and John W. Tunnell, Jr. ......................................................................................................... 9—18 Volume 27 ASSESSMENT OF SEAGRASS FLORAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE FROM TWO CARIBBEAN MARINE PROTECTED 2016 AREAS ISSN: 1528—0470 Paul A. X. Bologna and Anthony J. Suleski ............................................................................................................................................. 19—27 SPATIAL AND SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF RED DRUM CAUGHT AND RELEASED IN TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA, AND FAC- TORS ASSOCIATED WITH POST—RELEASE HOOKING MORTALITY Kerry E. Flaherty, Brent L. Winner, Julie L. Vecchio, and Theodore S. Switzer....................................................................................29—41 CHARACTERIZATION OF ICHTHYOPLANKTON IN THE NORTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO FROM SEAMAP PLANK- TON SURVEYS, 1982—1999 Joanne Lyczkowski—Shultz, David S. Hanisko, Kenneth J. Sulak, Ma gorzata Konieczna, and Pamela J. Bond ..................................43—98 ł GULF AND CAR Short Communications DEPURATION OF MACONDA (MC—252) OIL FOUND IN HETEROTROPHIC SCLERACTINIAN CORALS (TUBASTREA COCCINEA AND TUBASTREA MICRANTHUS) ON OFFSHORE OIL/GAS PLATFORMS IN THE GULF Steve R. Kolian, Scott Porter, Paul W. Sammarco, and Edwin W. Cake, Jr........................................................................................99—103 EFFECTS OF CLOSURE OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER GULF OUTLET ON SALTWATER INTRUSION AND BOTTOM WATER HYPOXIA IN LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN IBBEAN RESEARCH Michael A. Poirrier .............................................................................................................................................................................105—109 DISTRIBUTION AND LENGTH FREQUENCY OF INVASIVE LIONFISH (PTEROIS SP.) IN THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO OF MEXICO Alexander Q. Fogg, Eric R. Hoffmayer, William B. Driggers III, Matthew D. Campbell, Gilmore J. Pellegrin, and William Stein ............................................................................................................................................................................................................111—115 NOTES ON THE BIOLOGY OF INVASIVE LIONFISH (PTEROIS SP.) FROM THE NORTHCENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO William Stein III, Nancy J. Brown—Peterson, James S. Franks, and Martin T. O’Connell ...............................................................117—120 RECORD BODY SIZE FOR THE RED LIONFISH, PTEROIS VOLITANS (SCORPAENIFORMES), IN THE SOUTHERN GULF OF MEXICO Alfonso Aguilar—Perera, Leidy Perera—Chan, and Luis Quijano—Puerto ...........................................................................................121—123 EFFECTS OF BLACK MANGROVE (AVICENNIA GERMINANS) EXPANSION ON SALTMARSH (SPARTINA ALTERNI- FLORA) BENTHIC COMMUNITIES OF THE SOUTH TEXAS COAST Jessica Lunt, Kimberly McGlaun, and Elizabeth M. Robinson..........................................................................................................125—129 TIME—ACTIVITY BUDGETS OF STOPLIGHT PARROTFISH (SCARIDAE: SPARISOMA VIRIDE) IN BELIZE: CLEANING INVITATION AND DIURNAL PATTERNS Wesley A. Dent and Gary R. Gaston .................................................................................................................................................131—135 FIRST RECORD OF A NURSE SHARK, GINGLYMOSTOMA CIRRATUM, WITHIN THE MISSISSIPPI SOUND Jill M. Hendon, Eric R. Hoffmayer, and William B. Driggers III......................................................................................................137—139 REVIEWERS ........................................................................................................................................................................................................141 INSTRUCTION TO AUTHORS ...............................................................................................................................................................142-143 Published by © 2013 The University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast Published by Research Laboratory. MAR Printed in the United States of America ISSN: 1528—0470 CH 2013 703 East Beach Drive All rights reserved. No part of this publication covered by the Ocean Springs, Mississippi 39564 copyright hereon may be reproduced or copied in any form or 228.872.4200 • FAX: 228.872.4204 by any means without written permission from the publisher. Ocean Springs, Mississippi www.usm.edu/gcrl Gulf and Caribbean Research Vol 27, SC1-5, 2016 Manuscript received, May 19, 2016; accepted, July 28, 2016 DOI: 10.18785/gcr.2701.07 SHORT COMMUNICATION PARASITES FROM THE RED LIONFISH, PTEROIS VOLITANS, FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO Alexander Q. Fogg1, 2, Carlos F. Ruiz3, Stephen S. Curran2,4, and Stephen A. Bullard3 1Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, 620 South Meridian Street, Box 4B2, Tallahassee, FL 32399; 2Division of Coastal Sciences, School of Ocean Science and Technology, The University of Southern Mississippi, 703 East Beach Drive, Ocean Springs, Mississippi 39564; 3Department of Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Aquatic Sciences, Auburn University, 203 Swingle Hall, Auburn, Alabama 36849; 4Corresponding author, email:[email protected] KEY WORDS: Ectoparasite, endoparasite, host—parasite association, taxonomy, invasive INTRODUCTION Invasion of lionfish from the Indo—Pacific Ocean into the sites (from the heart and digestive tract) between 12 and 24 western Atlantic Ocean has recently become the subject for h after capture. ecological investigation directed at exploring concepts per- Leeches were cold—shocked or recently dead and therefore taining to host—parasite ecology (Sikkel et al. 2014, Sellers not relaxed prior to preservation in 70% ethanol. Arthro- et al. 2015). The potential impact that host—parasite interac- pods were preserved in 70% ethanol. Digeneans and a nem- tions may have on the relative success of lionfish in their new atode were removed, fixed using hot water, and preserved habitat is of particular interest. The value of data analyzed in in 70% ethanol. Digeneans were stained using aqueous such ecological investigations is dependent on accurate iden- Meyer’s hematoxylin, dehydrated through an alcohol series, tification of parasite species, which in turn is dependent on cleared in methyl salicylate, and mounted in Damar gum. the ability to verify parasite identifica- tion with vouchered museum specimens TABLE 1. Collections of Red Lionfish, Pterois volitans, examined for parasites. and sequence data. Studies identifying Collection Latitude Longitude Bottom Depth parasites of invasive lionfish in the west- date habitat (m) Number of fish examined ern Atlantic Ocean that are supported External Internal and by museum vouchered specimens or only (n=25) external (n=24) published sequence data are limited to 4 reports (Ruiz—Carus et al. 2006, Bul- 3/29/2013 30.31 -86.60 Artificial 26 1 6/12/2013 26.68 -83.73 Natural 74 1 lard et al. 2011, Ramos—Ascherl et al. 6/13/2013 25.84 -83.61 Natural 70 1 2015, Claxton et al. 2017), so there is 6/13/2013 25.98 -83.70 Natural 86 1 a need to improve the current state of 6/14/2013 24.65 -83.43 Natural 61 1 knowledge of parasites of invasive lion- 6/15/2013 25.53 -83.18 Natural 59 1 fish. This study reports and vouchers 6/22/2013 28.34 -91.18 Artificial 30 1 some parasites from invasive Red Lion- 7/1/2013 30.32 -86.58 Natural 26 1 fish from the northern Gulf of Mexico. 9/21/2013 27.26 -83.01 Natural 26 1 10/1/2013 29.69 -87.40 Natural 32 1 MATERIALS AND METHODS 10/13/2013 30.19 -86.43 Natural 30 1 Red Lionfish (Pterois volitans [Lin- 12/3/2013 29.97 -87.21 Artificial 34 3 naeus, 1758]) were collected from the 2/25/2014 30.15 -86.94 Natural 35 6 Gulf of Mexico between 29 March 2013 3/21/2014 30.18 -86.86 Natural 36 1 5 and 13 October 2014 (see Table 1). Fish 4/12/2014 27.45 -83.27 Artificial 34 5 were collected and identified following
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