TY - JOUR AU - Fernández, Italo AU - Oyarzún, Ciro AU - Valenzuela, Ariel AU - Burgos, Carolina AU - Guaquín, Víctor AU - Campos, Víctor PY - 2016/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Parasites of oceanic sunfish Mola mola (Pisces: Molidae). First record in waters from south-central Chile coast JF - Gayana JA - Gayana VL - 80 IS - 2 SE - Original Articles DO - 10.4067/S0717-65382016000200192 UR - https://gayana.cl/index.php/gn/article/view/213 SP - 192-197 AB - <p>In this study, we report parasitological findings in one&nbsp;<em>Mola mola</em>&nbsp;specimen examined and collected as by catch-off Tomé, south central Chile, during october 2014. Adult stages of digeneans,&nbsp;<em>Accacladium serpentulum</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Accacladocoelium macrocotyle,</em>&nbsp;cestode&nbsp;<em>Anchistrocephalus microcephalus</em>, and copepod&nbsp;<em>Cecrops latreillii</em>&nbsp;were isolated. Besides, at the larval stage, the third larval stage (L3) of nematode&nbsp;<em>Anisakis</em>&nbsp;sp. Type I,&nbsp;<em>sensu</em>&nbsp;Berland, 1961, and plerocerci larvae of cestode&nbsp;<em>Molicola horridus</em>&nbsp;were also observed. The results demonstrated the participation of&nbsp;<em>M. mola</em>&nbsp;as a definitive and intermediate or paratenic host in the life cycles of different parasites identified in the present study.</p> ER -