Table 1. Comparative cestode infection in syntopic brine shrimp populations from pond CX (adults and juveniles).

Only data for samples in which both Artemia species were recorded (N = 5) are presented.

		Host—adults		Host—juveniles
Cestode species		A. franciscana N = 487	A. salina N = 381	A. franciscana N = 765	A. salina N = 517
Flamingolepis liguloides (FL)	P%	0.8	17.6	1.4	8.3
	MI	1.00 ± 0.00	1.25 ± 0.07	1.18 ± 0.18	1.21 ± 0.11
	MA	0.008 ± 0.004	0.221 ± 0.03	0.017 ± 0.01	0.101 ± 0.02
Flamingolepis flamingo (FF)	P%	2.3	1.3	2.2	1.2
	MI	1.09 ± 0.09	1.20 ± 0.20	1.00 ± 0.00	1.17 ± 0.17
	MA	0.025 ± 0.01	0.016 ± 0.01	0.022 ± 0.01	0.014 ± 0.01
Wardium stellorae (WS)	P%	1.4	1.0	0.0	0.0
	MI	1.14 ± 0.14	1.00 ± 0.00	0.00	0.00
	MA	0.016 ± 0.01	0.011 ± 0.01	0.00	0.00
Fimbriarioides tadornae (FT)	P%	1.4	0.0	0.4	0.4
	MI	1.00 ± 0.00	0.00	1.00 ± 0.00	1.00 ± 0.00
	MA	0.014 ± 0.01	0.00	0.004 ± 0.002	0.004 ± 0.003
Eurycestus avoceti (EA)	P%	8.6	3.9	0.7	0.2
	MI	1.02 ± 0.02	1.00 ± 0.00	1.00 ± 0.00	1.00
	MA	0.088 ± 0.01	0.039 ± 0.01	0.007 ± 0.003	0.002 ± 0.002
Anomotaenia tringae (AT)	P%	4.9	7.3	0.3	1.2
	MI	1.08 ± 0.08	1.14 ± 0.09	1.50 ± 0.50	1.17 ± 0.17
	MA	0.053 ± 0.01	0.084 ± 0.02	0.004 ± 0.003	0.014 ± 0.01
Anomotaenia microphallos (AM)	P%	0.8	0.0	0.0	0.0
	MI	1.00 ± 0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
	MA	0.008 ± 0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Gynandrotaenia stammeri (GS)	P%	0.2	0.00	0.0	0.0
	MI	1.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
	MA	0.002 ± 0.002	0.00	0.00	0.00
Gynandrotaenia sp. (GSP)	P%	0.4	0.8	0.1	0.0
	MI	1.00 ± 0.00	1.00 ± 0.00	1.00	0.00
	MA	0.004 ± 0.003	0.008 ± 0.005	0.001 ± 0.001	0.00
Total infection	P%	19.1	24.9	3.9	9.5
	MI	1.15 ± 0.04	1.52 ± 0.08	1.40 ± 0.13	1.41 ± 0.14
	MA	0.220 ± 0.02	0.378 ± 0.04	0.055 ± 0.01	0.134 ± 0.02
Species richness ± SE		0.21 ± 0.02	0.32 ± 0.03	0.05 ± 0.01	0.11 ± 0.02
SR infected		1.10 ± 0.03	1.28 ± 0.06	1.30 ± 0.09	1.18 ± 0.06

Notes.

P%

prevalence

MI

mean intensity

MA

mean abundance

±SE

standard error

SR infected

species richness of infected individuals