Serranus Cabrilla (Linnaeus, 1758) (Perciformes, Serranidae ) a New Host Record for Nerocila Orbigyni (Guérin-Mèneville, 1832) (Isopoda, Cymothoidae)

Iranian Journal Fisheries Sciences 14(4) 1083- 1088 2015

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Serranus cabrilla (Linnaeus, 1758) (Perciformes, Serranidae ) a new host record for Nerocila orbigyni (Guérin-Mèneville, 1832) (Isopoda, Cymothoidae)

Özcan T.1*; Kirkim F. 2; Sakalı U.3

Received: February 2012 Accepted: June 2012

1- Marine Sciences and Technology Faculty, İskenderun Technical University, 31200 İskenderun-Hatay, Turkey. 2-Department of Hidrobiology, Fisheries Faculty, Ege University, 35100 Bornova-Izmir, Turkey. 3-Provincial Directorate of Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, Antakya, Hatay, Turkey *Corresponding author’s email: [email protected]

Key words: Nerocila orbigyni, Serranus cabrilla, New host, Eastern Mediterranean, Turkey

Cymothoids are among the largest (Trilles, 1968, 1986). To date, three parasites of fishes in the world. These species (N. bivittata, N. maculata, N. isopods associate with many orbignyi) belonging to the genus commercially important fish species Nerocila have been reported in Turkish and attach themselves to the body or coasts. Nerocila orbignyi occurs both in fins of the fishes (Brusca, 1981). The coastal and pelajic waters, as well as in isopods cause significant economic the bottom zone, infesting fishes from losses to fisheries by killing, stunting, the families Pleuronectidae and or damaging these fishes (Ravichandran Soleidae (Rokicki, 1985) and et al., 2009). (Mugilidae) as well (Trilles, 1975a, Cymothoidae is an ectoparasitic 1975b, 1994; Bruce, 1987; Öktener and family of Isopoda. Cymothoid isopods Trilles, 2004). However, this species are ectoparasites of marine, brackish has been reported from several fish and freshwater teleost fishes (Trilles, species (Trilles, 1975a, 1975b, 1994; 1994; Ferri et al., 2008; Kırkım et al., Bruce, 1987; Charfi-Cheikhrouha et al., 2009). The genus Nerocila is one of the 2000; Öktener and Trilles, 2004; nine genera of the family Cymothoidae Ramdane et al., 2007; Kayış and distributed in the Mediterranean Ceylan, 2011). 1084 Özcan et al., Serranus cabrilla (Perciformes, Serranidae ) a new host record for …

N. orbignyi has been known from all of collecting period, sampling area, name, the Mediterranean Sea (Trilles, 1994), and the size of the host were recorded, along the Black Sea coast of Turkey and the parasite's locations on the (Öktener and Trilles, 2004; Kayış and captured fish were noted. Identification Ceylan, 2011), Morocco (Dollfus and and morphometric characteristics of the Trilles, 1976), Tunisia (Trilles and isopod follows Trilles et al. (1989). The Raibaut, 1973; Charfi-Cheikhrouha et specimens, including the photographed al., 2000) and Algeria (Ramdane et al., ones, were preserved in 4% formalin 2007). N. orbignyi is also known to and deposited in the Museum of the penetrate into freshwaters along the Faculty of Fisheries, Mustafa Kemal Atlantic seaboard of South America University, Iskenderun-Hatay (MSM) (Brusca, 1981). (Collection No: MSM-MAL/2011-03). The serranid fish, Serranus cabrilla The salinity values ranged from (Linnaeus, 1758) (the comber) is a 37.9 ‰ to 39.1 ‰, and the maximum commercial species and has a wide temperature value recorded was 18.7 distribution (north Atlantic Sea, North °C. Nerocila orbigyni (Guérin- Sea and Mediterranean Sea) (Politou Mèneville, 1832) (Fig. 2). Material and Papaconstantinou, 1995; Torcu- examined: one ♂, (total length: 2.2 cm) Koc et al., 2004). The comber is a MSM-MAL/2011-03; trawl, 20-25 m, demersal species found on rocks, and sandy-silt bottom, on caudal fin of the on sandy and muddy bottoms at depths serranid, S. cabrilla (total length: 12.4 of 1-500 (Jardas, 1996). This is the cm) from the Samandağı coasts. main species captured by trawlers fishing in the Aegean Sea of the Distribution and ecology Turkish coast (Torcu-Koc et al., 2004). It is widely distributed in the N. orbignyi has been determined for the Mediterranean Sea, tropical and first time on S. cabrilla from the southern Atlantic, South Africa, Turkish coasts within the frame of the Australia, New Zealand, Red Sea, present study. North Pacific, East Pacific, western S. cabrilla (Perciformes, North Atlantic and in the Black Sea Serranidae), was captured by coast of Turkey (Bruce, 1987; Trilles, commercial trawl from the Samandağı 1994; Öktener and Trilles, 2004). It can (between 36˚30'50″ N 35˚59'60″ E and penetrate into fresh waters (Brusca, 36˚35'23″ N 36˚59'57″ E) coast of 1981), at depths ranging from the shore Turkey on 28 March 2011 (Fig. 1). The to 500 m (Jardas, 1996). sample obtained from a sandy-silt Host data: N. orbigyni gererally bottom at a depth of between 20 and 25 infects Mugilidae species heavily m. The parasitic isopod was collected (Trilles, 1994). The species has been from the fish and immediately previously reported from several fish preserved in 70% alcohol. Data on species and families such as; Scorpaena Iranian Journal of Fisheries Sciences 14(4) 2015 1085 porcus (Ferri et al., 2008); Mugil didactylus and Solea senegalensis cephalus, Crenilabrus pavo, Trigla lyra (Dollfus and Trilles, 1976). According (Ramdane et al., 2007); Liza ramada, to Moreira and Sadowsky (1978) this L. saliens, L. aurata, Chelon labrosus, species was reported on Callorhinchus Dicentrarchus labrax, Solea solea, mili and Chimaera sp. as well by Hale Serranus scriba, Diplodus annularis (1926, 1940). (Charfi-Cheikhrouha et al., 2000); D. Besides, Trilles et al. (1989) labrax (Bragoni et al., 1983, 1984; summarised the known hosts Liza Horton and Okumura, 2001); S. solea ramada, L. saliens, L. aurata, Chelon (Kayış and Ceylan, 2011); L. aurata labrosus, Lophius budegassa, (Merella and Grippa, 2001; Öktener and Syphonostomes, M. auratus, M. capito, Trilles, 2004); Pleuronectidae and M. chelo, M. labrosus, M.cephalus, Soleidae (Rokicki, 1985); Platichthys Platichthys flesus, D. labrax, Salmo flesus (Cavaleiro and Santos, 2009); trutta, and Tilapia galilea for Chelidonichthye kumu, Chrysophrys N.orbigyni. auratus, Acanthopagrus butcheri, In Turkey, it has been reported Sillago bassensis, Pomatomus from the operculum and pectoral fin of saltatrix, Mola mola, Girella the sole (S. Solea) in the Black Sea tricuspidata, Dactylopena orientalis, (Kayış and Ceylan, 2011), on the Pseudocaranx dentex, Callorhynchus operculum of L. aurata (Öktener and mili (Bruce, 1987); Mugil cephalus, M. Trilles, 2004) in the Black Sea, and in auratus, M. capito and M. labrosus, D. labrax of the Aegean Sea (Horton Alosa fallax nilotica, D. labrax (Trilles and Okumura, 2001). and Raibaut, 1973); Batrachus

Figure 1: Map of the study area.

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Figure 2: Nerocila orbignyi on a caudal fin of Serranus cabrilla in the Levantine Sea (A, B).

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