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

Authors

  • Marcos Tavares-Dias Embrapa Amapá, Macapá,Brasil
  • Cleuza Suzana Oliveira Araújo Universidade do Estado do Amazonas (UEA), Manaus, AM, Brasil. Universidade Nilton Lins, Manaus, AM, Brasil.
  • Márcia Souza Barros Universidade Nilton Lins, Manaus, AM, Brasil
  • Gabriela Moraes Viana Universidade Nilton Lins, Manaus, AM, Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14210/bjast.v18n1.p91-97

Abstract

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. patagonicafor 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. patagonicain 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.

Author Biography

Marcos Tavares-Dias, Embrapa Amapá, Macapá,Brasil

Biólogo, com Mestrado e Doutorado em Aquicultura. Áreas de Atuação: Hematologia, Sanidade e Parasitologia de Peixes e Aquicultura

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Published

2014-07-17

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2014)

Section

Research Articles

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