| A research of parasitefauna of 50 palm ruff Seriolella violacea Guichenot, 1816 from Ventanilla Fishmarket, Callao, Peru, between July and October 2001 and necropsied to study parasite infracommunities was conducted. Of the fishes collected, 21 were females and 29 males. Male showed a standard length between 21-95 cm (52.6 ± 24.9) and female between 18-96 cm (43.2 ± 21.1) and was not found differences between both sexes. 358 specimens of parasite were collected in total during all the survey, with a mean abundance of 7.2 ± 3.2 (2-18). The mean parasite species richness 1.2 (1-3) was not correlated with standard body length. All hosts were parasited. Forty-two hosts (84%) showed infection with 1 parasite species, and eight (16%) had 2 parasite species.... |
