PROTOZOÁRIOS E METAZOÁRIOS PARASITOS DE SETE ESPÉCIES DE CICHLIDAE DA BACIA IGARAPÉ FORTALEZA, ESTADO DO AMAPÁ (BRASIL)

  • Tavares-Dias, Marcos
  • Santos, Gracienhe Gomes
  • Brito-Junior, Ivanildo Amanajás
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Publication date
December 2019
Publisher
Revista Biota Amazonia
Language
Portuguese

Abstract

The aim of thi study was investigate the parasitic fauna of protozoans and metozoans in Acaronia nassa, Hypselecara temporalis, Heros efasciatus, Crenichla lubgrubris, Crenicichla saxatilis, Laetacara curviceps e Mesonauta guyanae  of the Igarapé Fortaleza basin, Amapá state, Brazil. From July 2011 to December 2012, 46 specimens of these fish were necropsied for parasite analysis of gills, digestory tract and viscera. Most of these hosts (85.7%) were parasitized by one or more species and a total of 1824,369 parasites was collected among Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, Gussevia disparoides, Sciadicleithrum joanae, Posthodiplostomum sp., Contracaecum sp., Pseudoproleptus sp., Proteocephalidae gen. sp., Gorytocephalus, Ergasilus sp. e Hirudinea...

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