The Mediterranean Sea is recognized as a marine biodiversity hotspot. This enclosed basin
is facing several anthropogenic-driven threats, such as seawater warming, pollution …

Parasite biodiversity in cetaceans represents a neglected component of the marine
ecosystem. This study aimed to investigate the distribution and genetic diversity of anisakid …

Introduction Anisakis pegreffii is a sibling species within the A. simplex (sl) complex
requiring marine homeothermic (mainly cetaceans) and heterothermic (crustaceans, fish …

Ascaridoid nematodes comprise a wide range of heteroxenous parasites infecting top fish
predators and marine mammals as definitive hosts, with crustaceans, squids, and fishes …

Post-mortem examination of a fin whale Balaenoptera physalus stranded in the
Mediterranean Sea led to the finding of Bolbosoma balaenae for the first time in this basin. In …

The study aims to perform, for the first time, the molecular identification of anisakid larvae in
commercial fish from the Southeastern Pacific Ocean off the Peru coast, and to provide data …

Sharks play a key role in the functioning of marine ecosystems and maintenance of trophic
web balance, including life cycles of parasites co-occurring in their habitats. We investigated …

Anisakid nematodes are a globally distributed group of marine mammal parasites. Kogiid
whales, including the pygmy sperm whale Kogia breviceps, host an assemblage of specific …

This study aimed to locate the adults, and thus also the definitive hosts, of three species of
marine mammal-parasitising larval cestodes that have molecular affinities with …

Little is known about parasitism in the pygmy sperm whale Kogia breviceps. Here, the
occurrence of 3 anisakid species in a female pygmy sperm whale found stranded at Baxter's …