Scuba diving photography: a useful method for taxonomic and ecologic studies on fish parasites (cymothoidae)

This study emphasizes that underwater photography is useful for taxonomic and ecologic studies on parasitic cymothoidae. So, using this method, it reports potential new hosts for species of the genera Anilocra and Nerocila from the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea coasts of Turkey. Underwater photographs were taken by scuba divers from 15 different fish hosts. Anthias anthias, Apogon imberbis, Gobius bucchichi, Symphodus mediterraneus, Tripterygion delaisi, T. melanurus and a lessepsian migrant Pempheris vanicolensis were identified as new hosts for the genus Anilocra. Nerocila bivittata was observed on Sciaena umbra and Scorpaena scrofa.