New hosts and distribution records of Braga patagonica, a parasite cymothoidae of fishes from the Amazon.

Specimens of Braga patagonica Schiödte & Meinert, 1884 (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from freshwater fishes deposited in Ichthyological Collection of Amazon National Research Institute (INPA), in central Amazon and from fishes from eastern Amazon (Brazil) were investigated. Prevalence, infection intensity and body measures of B. patagonica for different populations of this cymothoid in wild fishes species from Amazon were carried out. Four species of Serrasalmidae, one Characidae, one Cichlidae, one Cynodontidae, one Curimatidae, one Acestrorhynchidae and one Sciaenidae were recorded as new hosts for B. patagonica in the Amazon. This study indicates a low intensity and low parasitic specificity of B. patagonica, and also recorded the first parasitism by this ectoparasite in farmed Colossoma macropomum, describing its highly pathogenic effect.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	TAVARES-DIAS, M, ARAÚJO, C. S. O., BARROS, M. S., VIANA, G. M.
Other Authors:	MARCOS TAVARES-DIAS, CPAF-AP.
Format:	Artigo de periódico biblioteca
Language:	English eng
Published:	2014-07-21
Subjects:	Crustacean, Animal parasit, Cymothoid, Parasito animal., Crustáceo, Peixe de água doce., freshwater fish.,
Online Access:	http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/991066
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