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The parasite community of gobiid fishes (Actinopterygii: Gobiidae) from the Lower Volga River region

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The parasitic fauna in the lower Volga River basin was investigated for four gobiid species: the nonindigenous monkey goby Neogobius fluviatilis (Pallas, 1814), the round goby N. melanostomus (Pallas, 1814), the Caspian bighead goby Ponticola gorlap (Iljin, 1949), and the tubenose goby Proterorhinus cf. semipellucidus (Kessler, 1877). In total, 19 species of goby parasites were identified, of which two - Bothriocephalus opsariichthydis Yamaguti, 1934 and Nicolla skrjabini (Iwanitzki, 1928) - appeared to have been introduced from other geographic regions. The monkey goby had significantly fewer parasitic species (6), but relatively high levels of infection, in comparison to the native species. Parasitism of the Caspian bighead goby, which is the only predatory fish among the studied gobies, differed from the others according to the results of discriminant analysis. The parasitic fauna of the tubenose goby more closely resembled those of Caspian Sea gobiids, rather than the Black Sea monkey goby.

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Acknowledgements

Sampling of gobiids in the Volga River Delta location was carried out in collaboration with Dr. Kirill Litvinov, Astrakhan Biosphere Reserve. We thank Dr. Nina A. Litvinova, the director of the Astrakhan Biosphere Reserve, for her gracious help coordinating sampling and laboratory work. We also thank all technicians at Obzhorovsky Uchastok for their help and Dr. Boris Lobasiuk (Institute of Mechanic and Mathematic, University of Odessa, Ukraine) for his help with statistical analyses. This is publication contribution #2014-XX from the University of Toledo’s Lake Erie Center, which was supported by grants from NSF DGE#0948468 and0727913 and NSF DEB #0727913, to CAS.

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  1. Institute of Marine Biology of NAS of Ukraine, Vul. Pushkinska 37, 65011, Odessa, Ukraine

    Yuriy Kvach

  2. Volgograd Division of the State Institute of Lake and River Fisheries, Ul. Pugachiovskaya 1, Volgograd, 400001, Russia

    Vasily Boldyrev

  3. Great Lakes Genetics/Genomics Laboratory, Lake Erie Center, The University of Toledo, 6200 Bayshore Rd., Toledo, OH, 43616, USA

    Rachel Lohner & Carol A. Stepien

  4. Institute of Vertebrate Biology AS CR, v.v.i., Květná 8, 60365, Brno, Czech Republic

    Yuriy Kvach

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Kvach, Y., Boldyrev, V., Lohner, R. et al. The parasite community of gobiid fishes (Actinopterygii: Gobiidae) from the Lower Volga River region. Biologia 70, 948–957 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1515/biolog-2015-0108

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