Dataset: Results of an investigation of parasite communities infecting lionfish (Pterois volitans) in their native range, Guam and the Philippines, and in their invaded range, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands

Final no updates expectedDOI: 10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.3894.1Version 1 (2013-04-03)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

Principal Investigator: Mark Hixon (Oregon State University)

Scientist: Paul C. Sikkel (Arkansas State University)

Scientist: Lillian J. Tuttle (Oregon State University)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Ecological Release and Resistance at Sea: Invasion of Atlantic Coral Reefs by Pacific Lionfish (Lionfish Invasion)


Abstract

Results of an investigation of parasite communities infecting lionfish (Pterois volitans) in their native range, Guam and the Philippines, and in their invaded range, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands.

Results of an investigation of the parasite communities infecting lionfish (Pterois volitans) at two sites in their native range, Guam and the Philippines, and at two sites in their invaded range, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands.

Related Publications:
Sikkel, P.C., L.J. Tuttle, K. Cure, A.I. Dove, J. Passarelli, J.T. McIlwain, and M.A. Hixon. In preparation. Enemy release hypothesis tested: native Pacific lionfish (Pterois volitans) have more parasites than invasive Atlantic lionfish. (To be submitted to Biological Invasions).
Tuttle, L.J., P.C. Sikkel, E.A. Williams, L. Bunkley-Williams, A.I. Dove, and M.A. Hixon. In preparation. Invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans) have fewer parasites than native piscivorous fishes found on the same Atlantic reefs. (To be submitted to Marine Ecology Progress Series).


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