Check List of the parasites of the ocean sunfish (Mola mola: Molidae) fish in the world

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RESUMO. Devido à escassez de trabalhos relacionados ao parasitismo no mundo, sendo assim, percebe-se a importância de realizar uma revisão bibliográfica em artigos científicos, dissertações e teses em bancos de dados e periódicos de fácil acesso para os estudantes e pesquisadores acerca das ocorrências de parasitas em M. mola entre os anos de 1904 -2017. A espécie de peixe conhecida popularmente como peixe lua (Mola mola: Molidae) são encontrados em todos os oceanos do mundo. O parasitismo pode ser uma das possíveis causas de encalhe desta família no Brasil, uma vez que existe um número de publicações cientificas reduzida de relatos de ocorrência da espécie M. mola. Foram encontrados 51 trabalhos relacionados a parasitos da espécie Mola mola no mundo, no estudo foram registradas 44 espécies de parasitos e 9 espécies são sinônimos, ou seja, são parasitos conhecidos por mais de um nome. O estudos possibilitou encontrar a ocorrência de parasitária em M. mola nos cinco filos e nos cinco continentes, destes houve maior registro de ocorrência parasitária na Europa nos filos Platylhelminte (n=28), Arthopoda (n=15) e Nematoda (n=1) e na América os filos Acanthocephala (n=1), Platylhelmintes (n=27) e Arthopoda (n=15), Oceania Platylhelmintes (n=7), Nematoda (n=1) e Arthopoda (n=14), na Ásia foram registrados os filos Platylhelmintes (n=3) e Arthopoda (n=5), na África foram registrados estudos apenas no filo Arthopoda (n=10) e algumas espécies os artigos científicos não identificaram o localidade do parasito encontrado impossibilitando de registrar o continente (NI) apresentou registro de parasitos nos filos Platylhelmintes (n=7), Arthopoda (n=3). Percebe-se a importância dos trabalhos de revisão de literatura, pois facilita o trabalho de futuros pesquisadores em agilizar a pesquisa.Palavras chave: Parasitismo, peixe sol, platelmintos, sunfish Check List of the parasites of the ocean sunfish (Mola mola: Molidae) fish in the world ABSTRACT. Due to the scarcity of works related to parasitism in the world, it is important to carry out a bibliographic review of scientific articles, dissertations and theses in databases and journals that are easily accessible to students and researchers about the occurrence of parasites in M. spring between the years of 1904 -2017. A species of fish popularly known as moon fish (Mola mola: Molidae) has been found in every ocean in the world. Parasitism may be one of the next causes of family sweeping in Brazil, since there are a number of reduced scientific reports of occurrences of M. mola species. The studies made it possible to find parasitic occurrence in M. mola in the five phyla and in the five continents, of which there was a higher parasitic occurrence in Europe in the Platylhelminte (n = 28), Arthopoda (n = 15) and Nematoda (n =1), and in America the phyla Acanthocephala (n = 1), Platylhelmintes (n = 27) and Arthopoda (n = 15), Oceania

New Parasite Records for the Sunfish Mola mola in the Mediterranean Sea and Their Potential Use as Biological Tags for Long-Distance Host Migration

“…Regarding to the other helminths identified in the present study, the cestodes H. trichiuri (Sphyriocephalidae) and A. microcephalus (Triaenophoridae) parasitize as adults the intestine of pelagic sharks and Molidae fishes respectively (5,6,26,41,42,47,48). It is believed that copepods can serve as intermediate hosts for both cestode species (48,54).…”

“…Small crustaceans (Euphausiidae), fishes, squids, and other invertebrates serve as first and second intermediate or paratenic hosts (43,44). Anisakis larvae have been previously reported in Mola species from Spain, New Zealand, and Chile (5,6,42), although no molecular analyses were performed to identify those larvae to species level. Anisakis simplex (s.s.) is known from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and has its southern limit of distribution in the North-Eastern Atlantic waters along the Spanish-Portuguese Atlantic coast, being never recorded in the Mediterranean Sea except from the Alboran Sea, a transitional zone between Atlantic and Mediterranean [see (43)], and in pelagic fishes like the Atlantic mackerel Scomber scombrus Linnaeus, 1758 and the Atlantic bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus Linnaeus, 1758 in the Eastern Mediterranean (45,46); however, it has been suggested that the latter findings were related to the large migratory routes of those intermediate/paratenic fish hosts (45,46).…”

“…Mola species are well-known to host a variegate parasite fauna, and in particular several papers focused in the past on the parasite fauna of "M. mola," whose information was reviewed by de Figueiredo et al (5). However, since the clarification of the worldwide taxonomy of the genus Mola, only Ahuir-Baraja et al (6) investigated the endo-parasites of a Mola individual stranded on the Valencian coast (western Mediterranean Sea), identified by molecular tools as M. alexandrini.…”

“…However, since the clarification of the worldwide taxonomy of the genus Mola, only Ahuir-Baraja et al (6) investigated the endo-parasites of a Mola individual stranded on the Valencian coast (western Mediterranean Sea), identified by molecular tools as M. alexandrini. This likely implies that the majority of the studies carried out so far reported the parasites infecting the entire genus under the single species M. mola [see (5)].…”