Table 1.
Groupers in the Mediterranean (according to [7, 8]) and their diplectanid species. The placement of certain host species in Mycteroperca follows recent molecular results [4, 40]; some of these species were previously classified within Epinephelus.
| Host species | Diplectanid species, authorship of description and current combination, additional references |
|---|---|
| Native Mediterranean species | |
| Epinephelus aeneus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire) | Pseudorhabdosynochus hargisi (Oliver & Paperna, 1984) Santos, Buchmann & Gibson, 2000 [3, 36]. Redescription: [45] |
| P. americanus (Price, 1937) Kritsky & Beverley-Burton, 1986 [25, 37]. Redescriptions: [6, 36, 45] | |
| Mycteroperca marginata (Lowe, 1834) = E. marginatus | P. riouxi (Oliver, 1986) Santos, Buchmann & Gibson, 2000 [33, 38]. |
| Redescriptions: [34, 45] | |
| P. beverleyburtonae (Oliver, 1984) Kritsky & Beverley-Burton, 1986 [25, 32]. | |
| Redescriptions: [35, 38] | |
| Echinoplectanum echinophallus (Euzet & Oliver, 1965) Justine & Euzet, 2006 [6, 21] | |
| M. costae (Steindachner) = E. costae | P. bouaini Neifar & Euzet, 2007 [31] |
| P. dolicocolpos Neifar & Euzet, 2007 [31] | |
| P. enitsuji Neifar & Euzet, 2007 [31] | |
| P. sinediscus Neifar & Euzet, 2007 [31] | |
| P. sosia Neifar & Euzet, 2007 [31] | |
| M. canina (Valenciennes) = E. caninus | None recorded in the Mediterranean |
| M. rubra (Bloch) | P. regius n. sp. (this paper) |
| P. sp. (this paper) | |
| Hyporthodus haifensis (Ben-Tuvia) | P. sp. (unpublished) |
| Introduced Lessepsian species | |
| E. coioides (Hamilton) | None recorded in the Mediterranean; several diplectanids in its native range. South China Sea: [3, 27, 28, 45, 46] |
| E. malabaricus (Bloch & Schneider) | None recorded in the Mediterranean; several diplectanids in its native range. New Caledonia: [23] |
| E. fasciatus (Forsskål) | None recorded in the Mediterranean; several diplectanids in its native range. Red Sea: [36]; New Caledonia: [9, 14, 20] |
| Introduced Atlantic species | |
| Cephalopholis taeniops (Valenciennes) | None recorded in the Mediterranean (unidentified diplectanids present off Dakar, Senegal; unpublished) |
| M. fusca (Lowe) | None recorded in the Mediterranean |
| Introduced species – aquarium escapee | |
| E. merra (Bloch) | None recorded in the Mediterranean; several diplectanids in its native range. Fiji: [26]; New Caledonia: [9, 14] |