Table 3 The infracommunities of the metazoan parasites of the shoal flounder Syacium gunteri

Mean number of species

1.89 ± 1.02

1.86 ± 1.88

2.58 ± 1.26

1.42 ± 0.76

Mean number of individuals

43.71 ± 45.79

44.98 ± 50.17

40.97 ± 40.22

43.51 ± 41.83

Brillouin’s diversity index

1.16 ± 0.53

1.42 ± 0.22

1.53 ± 0.25

0.38 ± 0.23

Berger-Parker dominance index

0.84 ± 0.23

0.86 ± 0.19

0.73 ± 0.21

0.87 ± 0.29

Numerically dominant species

Mean similarity within sampling sites (Jaccard)

0.78 ± 0.13

0.79 ± 0.13

0.69 ± 0.13

0.86 ± 0.10

Mean similarity within sampling sites (percentage of similarity)

60.36 ± 17.66

59.91 ± 17.73

56.22 ± 16.06

66.89 ± 17.17