| A total of 47 species of parasites were collected from 131 specimens of 13 species of fishes of the family Lutjanidae (Pisces). Host specificity was analyzed using the calculated mean intensity from each infection. Sixty-eight new host records, three new family host specificities, and eight new species of parasites are reported. The new species of parasites include one monogenean, three cestode larvae, one nematode and four copepods. Ten species of digenetic trematodes from seven families and eight genera were collected. Ten species of four genera of monogeneans were collected, which include: a new species of Diplectanum, three species of Euryhaliotrema, five species of Haliotrema, and one species of Microcotyloides . Three species of cestode larvae: Bothriocephalus sp., Ceratobotrium sp. and Nybelina sp. infected four different species of snappers. Three species of nematodes of three different genera were collected from seven different species of snappers. One nematode of the genus Cucullanus is proposed as a new species. One species of Acanthocephala, Illiosentis ctenorhynchus , was collected from Etelis oculatus. Four leeches of the species Trachelobdella lubrica, were collected on the gills of four Lutjanus griseus and one on one Lutjanus jocu. Sixteen species of copepods were collected including three new species of Hatschekia and one Neobrachiella sp. Three species of isopods of the genera Rocinela and Gnathia infected seven species of snappers. |
