Metazoan parasite infracommunities of the dusky flounder (Syacium papillosum) as bioindicators of environmental conditions in the continental shelf of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Table 4 The infracommunities of the metazoan parasites of the dusky flounder Syacium papillosum (n = 127)

	Overall	Western YS	Mid YS	Caribbean
Mean no. of species	8.67 ± 3.43	6.79 ± 2.74	8.29 ± 3.28	9.94 ± 3.39
Mean no. of individuals	321.12 ± 321.09	228.50 ± 186.67	334.10 ± 371.75	354.81 ± 320.24
Brillouinʼs diversity index	0.94 ± 0.44	0.96 ± 0.43	0.87 ± 0.43	0.98 ± 0.45
Brillouinʼs evenness index	0.48 ± 0.21	0.56 ± 0.22	0.44 ± 0.19	0.47 ± 0.22
Numerically dominant species	Lecanicephalum sp.	Lecanicephalum sp.	Lecanicephalum sp.	Lecanicephalum sp.

Notes: The data include the community metrics for 17 sampling sites (Overall) and the three groups of sampling sites formed by non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) patterns from the continental shelf of the Peninsula of Yucatan in Fig. 2

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