Hexabothriidae and Monocotylidae (Monogenoidea) from the gills of neonate hammerhead sharks (Sphyrnidae)

• Published in: Parasitology
• Main Authors: Dalrymple, Kaitlyn M, de Buron, Isaure, Hill-Spanik, Kristina M, Galloway, Ashley S, Barker, Amanda, Portnoy, David S, Frazier, Bryan S, Boeger, Walter A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2022
• Subjects: Carolina hammerhead; Hexabothriidae; Monocotylidae; Sphyrnidae; host repertoire; hybrids; scalloped hammerhead; taxonomy; Griffith; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182022001007; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35943055; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11010515/

Neonates of hammerhead sharks (Sphyrnidae), Sphyrna lewini (Griffith and Smith, 1834), the sympatric cryptic species, Sphyrna gilberti Quattro et al., 2013, and their hybrids were captured in the western North Atlantic, along the coast of South Carolina, USA, between 2018 and 2019 and examined for g...