Population Genetic Structure of Marine Leech, Pterobdella arugamensis in Indo-West Pacific Region.

ABSTRACT: Grouper aquaculture is rapidly expanding in both tropical and subtropical regions. The presence of marine leeches (Pterobdella arugamensis; previously named Zeylanicobdella arugamensis) infesting cultured groupers, however, can have a fatal effect on grouper aquaculture production and cause significant economic loss. Understanding the marine leech's population structure is therefore important to determine its possible distributional origin and distributional mechanisms, which will help monitor and mitigate the infestation. In this study, a total of 84 marine leeches collected from cultured hybrid groupers Epinephelus spp. in Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia and Indonesia were identified as P. arugamensis, based on morphological and mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase

SUBMITTER: Azmey S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9222843 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature