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Fig. 9.8. A. Metazoan endoparasites of the marine teleost fishAcanthopagrus australis.
Number of species of different sizes (maximum width×maximum length) and volumes
(maximum width×maximum length×maximum depth) and size ratios of species with
adjacent sizes. Note: 11 trematodes, ten nematodes, five cestodes, four acanthocephalans.
All except two species parasites of the digestive tract. Outlier a very large tissue nematode.
B. Metazoan parasites in the digestive tract of marine fishes (1808 fish of 47 species). Note
that the parasites do not conform to the packing rules of Ritchie and Olff (1999). (From
Rohde, 2001b.)