Parasite fauna of lanternfish (Myctophidae) in the Canary Islands, with an assessment of the role of myctophids in cetacean parasite transmission

Myctophids act as a key link between lower and higher trophic levels in oceanic systems, thus they are expected to play an important role in the life cycles of helminths of cetaceans, but evidence about this role is scarce. To fill this gap, we examined the parasitic fauna of 380 myctophids belongin