Ophidion barbatum

Snake blenny (Ophidion barbatum) is a fish species in the family Ophidiidae. Widespread in the Eastern Atlantic from the southern England to Senegal and the northern Mediterranean Sea. It is a marine subtropical demersal fish, up to 25 cm long.[1]

Snake blenny
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Ophidiiformes
Family: Ophidiidae
Genus: Ophidion
Species:
O. barbatum
Binomial name
Ophidion barbatum
Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms

Parasites

As most fish, the Snake blenny harbours a variety of parasites. One of them is the diclidophorid monogenean Flexophora ophidii. The species was described in 1962 by Maria Prost and Louis Euzet from the coasts of France in the Mediterranean Sea [2] and found 58 years later off Algeria.[3]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2009). "Ophidion barbatum" in FishBase. January 2009 version.
  2. Prost, Maria; Euzet, Louis (2017). "Flexophora ophidii n. g. n. sp. un Diclidophoridae (Monogenea) parasite d'Ophidium barbatum (L.) (Teleostei)". Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 37 (3): 210–215. doi:10.1051/parasite/1962373210. ISSN 0003-4150.
  3. Bouguerche, Chahinez; Justine, Jean-Lou; Tazerouti, Fadila (2020). "Redescription of Flexophora ophidii Prost & Euzet, 1962 (Monogenea: Diclidophoridae) from Ophidion barbatum (Ophidiidae) off the Algerian coast, Mediterranean Sea". Systematic Parasitology. doi:10.1007/s11230-020-09948-y. ISSN 0165-5752.


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