New data on pipefishes’ and seahorse’s endohelminths off Crimean coasts of the Black Sea
Journal: Helminthologia
Year: 2022

A total of 357 Syngnathidae fishes (<i>Syngnathus abaster</i> Risso, 1827, <i>S. typhle</i> Linnaeus, 1758 and <i>Hippocampus hippocampus</i> (Linnaeus, 1758) caught in different habitats along Crimean Black Sea shelf were examined for presence of endohelminths and revealed to be hosts of 15 helminth species. The fishes are second intermediate hosts for five "birds'" digenean species and nematodes (larvae of three species and immature adults of one more species) completing life-cycles in waterbi