Check List of the parasites of the ocean sunfish (Mola mola: Molidae) fish in the world

Abstract

Due to the scarcity of works related to parasitism in the world, it is important to carry out a bibliographic review of scientific articles, dissertations and theses in databases and journals that are easily accessible to students and researchers about the occurrence of parasites in M. spring between the years of 1904 - 2017. A species of fish popularly known as moon fish (Mola mola: Molidae) has been found in every ocean in the world. Parasitism may be one of the next causes of family sweeping in Brazil, since there are a number of reduced scientific reports of occurrences of M. mola species. The studies made it possible to find parasitic occurrence in M. mola in the five phyla and in the five continents, of which there was a higher parasitic occurrence in Europe in the Platylhelminte (n = 28), Arthopoda (n = 15) and Nematoda (n =1), and in America the phyla Acanthocephala (n = 1), Platylhelmintes (n = 27) and Arthopoda (n = 15), Oceania Platylhelmintes (n = 7), Nematoda Asia were recorded Platylhelminths (n = 3) and Arthopoda (n = 5), in Africa only studies were registered in the phylum Arthopoda (n = 10) and some species the scientific articles did not identify the locality of the parasite found impossible to register the continent (NI) presented a record of parasites in the Platylhelmintes (n = 7), Arthopoda (n = 3). It is noticed the importance of the work of literature review, as it facilitates the work of future researchers in streamlining the research.