An annotated list of fish parasites (Isopoda, Copepoda, Monogenea, Digenea, Cestoda, Nematoda) collected from Snappers and Bream (Lutjanidae, Nemipteridae, Caesionidae) in New Caledonia confirms high parasite biodiversity on coral reef fish

Table 4 Parasite biodiversity in reef-associated families: lutjanids and nemipterids compared with lethrinids and serranids, and a calculation on all four families

Family or group		All data	Well-sampled		All data	Well- sampled
Lutjanidae, reef-associated	HPCs	81	20	HPCs mean	10.13	20.00
(All data: 8 species; well-sampled: 1 species*)	SLIPs	25	9	SLIPs mean	3.13	9.00
Nemipteridae	HPCs	42	25	HPCs mean	14.00	25.00
(All data: 3 species; well-sampled: 1 species*)	SLIPs	15	13	SLIPs mean	5.00	13.00
Lethrinidae	HPCs	188	89	HPCs mean	11.06	22.25
(All data: 17 species; well-sampled: 4 species)	SLIPs	42	38	SLIPs mean	2.47	9.50
Serranidae	HPCs	337	136	HPCs mean	12.04	19.43
(All data: 28 species; well-sampled: 7 species)	SLIPs	75	74	SLIPs mean	2.68	10.57
Four families of reef-associated fish	HPCs	648	270	HPCs mean	11.57	20.77
(All data: 56 species; well-sampled: 13 species)***	SLIPs	148	125	SLIPs mean	2.64	9.62

*: species with only anecdotal data (see Table 1) were excluded from these calculations.
** species sampled over 30: Lutjanidae, only Lutjanus vitta (n = 42); Nemipteridae, only Nemipterus furcosus (n = 239).
*** SLIPs for all four families are not a simple addition of SLIPs for each families, because a few taxa are shared. These include only the digenean Stephanostomum japonocasum (shared by 2 fish families), and the four trypanorhynchs C. gracilis (shared by 4 families), F. minacanthus, Ps. heroniensis and Ny. goreensis (shared by 2–3 families).