Geographic variation in composition of metazoan parasite infracommunities in Galaxias maculatus Jenyns 1842 (Osmeriformes: Galaxiidae) in southern Chile (38-47° S)

Table 1 Number of fish examined, total length (mm), weight (g) standard deviation, and number of parasites per sampling location and taxon. Total number of taxa per location (last row) and total number of parasites per location as well as the range of locations in which each taxon occur (right column)

Sampling location	Ebak	Epue	Eval	Lays	Lbak	Lmau	Lval	Rays	Rimp	Rmau	Rval
N fishes examined	15	6	15	15	15	6	22	20	20	19	13
Total length (mm)	37	44	32	37	27	36	36	32	40	46	32
Standard deviation (mm)	1,1	1,5	3,9	2,1	3,8	2,4	4,2	3,5	5,7	8,9	2,4
Weight (g)	0,27	0,59	0,32	0,53	0,18	0,56	0,49	0,32	0,56	0,55	0,33
Standard deviation (g)	0,17	0,14	0,11	0,13	0,11	0,14	0,13	0,10	0,18	0,09	0,07
Parasite taxa (si; S)^a												N parasites	N locations
Argulus sp. (sk, f; A)	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	10	24	0	37	4
Dactylogyridae gen. sp. (g; A)	0	0	0	0	0	3	7	6	1	1	0	18	5
Camallanus corderoi (i; L)	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	2
Cystidicoloides sp. (s; A)	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	4	4
Contracaecum sp. (m, bc; L)	2	1	0	0	1	5	0	0	20	3	0	32	6
Tylodelphys sp. (cc; L)	7	140	36	9	472	148	68	5	151	0	48	1084	10
Posthodiplostomum sp. (i, s; L)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	2
Achanthostomoides apophalliformis (bc; L)	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	2
Metacercaria A. apophalliformis (l; M)	0	2	0	0	0	6	2	0	0	0	0	10	3
Allocreadium pichi (i; A)	0	0	0	0	0	9	0	0	0	0	0	9	1
Larva Cyclophyllidea (i; L)	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	5	3
Acanthocephalus sp. (i; A)	4	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	2
Total	14	146	37	13	476	174	79	11	187	29	48	1214
N taxa	3	5	2	2	4	8	5	2	7	4	1

^asi site of infection, i intestine, cc cranial cavity, g gills, m mesenteries, f fins, bc body cavity, l liver, s stomach, sk skin
S Stage, A Adult, L Larva, M Metacercaria

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