“…Nematodes were the most prevalent parasites, followed by cestodes, monogenea and digenea. It should be noted that most of the findings on fish parasites in Madeira are mainly due to the work of Costa G. et al (1996Costa G. et al ( , 1998Costa G. et al ( , 2000Costa G. et al ( , 2003aCosta G. et al ( , b, 2004aCosta G. et al ( , b, 2007Costa G. et al ( , 2009aCosta G. et al ( , b, 2012Costa G. et al ( , 2013aCosta G. et al ( , b, 2014Costa G. et al ( , 2016, and also of Hermida et al (2008Hermida et al ( , 2012aHermida et al ( , b, 2013aHermida et al ( , b, 2014Hermida et al ( , 2015, Santos et al (2009) andOliva et al (2008).…”