HELMINTHIC ENDOFAUNA OF FOUR SPECIES OF FISH FROM LOWER JARI RIVER, A TRIBUTARY OF THE AMAZON BASIN IN BRAZIL
Studies on parasites of wild fish populations are important for knowledge of biodiversity, since parasites represent a great fraction of the planet's biodiversity. The present study investigated the helminths fauna of Leporinus friderici, Mylossoma duriventre, Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus and O...
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Studies on parasites of wild fish populations are important for knowledge of biodiversity, since parasites represent a great fraction of the planet's biodiversity. The present study investigated the helminths fauna of Leporinus friderici, Mylossoma duriventre, Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus and Osteoglossum bicirrhosum collected from the lower Jari River, in the state of Amapá in the eastern Amazon region, Brazil. These fish, which have varying eating habits, were caught using gill nets with different mesh sizes for analysis of helminths, using standard methodologies. The helminths collected from these hosts were: Procamallanus (Spirocamallnus) inopinatus, Guyanema seriei seriei, Contracaecum sp., Eustrongylides sp. (Nematoda), Clinostomum marginatum, Dadaytrema oxycephala, Caballerotrema aruanense, Posthodiplostomum sp. (Digenea), Quadrigyrus nickoli and Neoechinorhynchus sp. (Acanthocephala). Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus presented the highest prevalence, intensity and mean abundance of C. marginatum, while M. duriventre was the host with lowest level of this parasite. The greatest diversity was of Contracaecum sp., sole helminth found in all species of fish studied. The presence of larvae of endoparasites indicates that these fish are intermediate hosts in the Jari River basin.
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| spelling | doaj-art-9785922ea6bb4ccf9adaa778e6d1e5cd2025-08-20T01:58:31ZengInstituto de PescaBoletim do Instituto de Pesca1678-23052019-02-0145110.20950/1678-2305.2019.45.1.393HELMINTHIC ENDOFAUNA OF FOUR SPECIES OF FISH FROM LOWER JARI RIVER, A TRIBUTARY OF THE AMAZON BASIN IN BRAZILMarcos Sidney Brito Oliveira0Lincoln Lima Corrêa1Marcos Tavares-Dias2Universidade Federal do Amapá - UNIFAP, Programa de Pós-graduação em Biodiversidade Tropical - PPGBIOUniversidade Federal do Oeste do Pará - UFOPA, Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologia das Águas - ICTAEmbrapa Amapá Studies on parasites of wild fish populations are important for knowledge of biodiversity, since parasites represent a great fraction of the planet's biodiversity. The present study investigated the helminths fauna of Leporinus friderici, Mylossoma duriventre, Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus and Osteoglossum bicirrhosum collected from the lower Jari River, in the state of Amapá in the eastern Amazon region, Brazil. These fish, which have varying eating habits, were caught using gill nets with different mesh sizes for analysis of helminths, using standard methodologies. The helminths collected from these hosts were: Procamallanus (Spirocamallnus) inopinatus, Guyanema seriei seriei, Contracaecum sp., Eustrongylides sp. (Nematoda), Clinostomum marginatum, Dadaytrema oxycephala, Caballerotrema aruanense, Posthodiplostomum sp. (Digenea), Quadrigyrus nickoli and Neoechinorhynchus sp. (Acanthocephala). Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus presented the highest prevalence, intensity and mean abundance of C. marginatum, while M. duriventre was the host with lowest level of this parasite. The greatest diversity was of Contracaecum sp., sole helminth found in all species of fish studied. The presence of larvae of endoparasites indicates that these fish are intermediate hosts in the Jari River basin. https://institutodepesca.org/index.php/bip/article/view/1349Amazonparasitesfreshwater fishhosts |
| spellingShingle | Marcos Sidney Brito Oliveira Lincoln Lima Corrêa Marcos Tavares-Dias HELMINTHIC ENDOFAUNA OF FOUR SPECIES OF FISH FROM LOWER JARI RIVER, A TRIBUTARY OF THE AMAZON BASIN IN BRAZIL Boletim do Instituto de Pesca Amazon parasites freshwater fish hosts |
| title | HELMINTHIC ENDOFAUNA OF FOUR SPECIES OF FISH FROM LOWER JARI RIVER, A TRIBUTARY OF THE AMAZON BASIN IN BRAZIL |
| title_full | HELMINTHIC ENDOFAUNA OF FOUR SPECIES OF FISH FROM LOWER JARI RIVER, A TRIBUTARY OF THE AMAZON BASIN IN BRAZIL |
| title_fullStr | HELMINTHIC ENDOFAUNA OF FOUR SPECIES OF FISH FROM LOWER JARI RIVER, A TRIBUTARY OF THE AMAZON BASIN IN BRAZIL |
| title_full_unstemmed | HELMINTHIC ENDOFAUNA OF FOUR SPECIES OF FISH FROM LOWER JARI RIVER, A TRIBUTARY OF THE AMAZON BASIN IN BRAZIL |
| title_short | HELMINTHIC ENDOFAUNA OF FOUR SPECIES OF FISH FROM LOWER JARI RIVER, A TRIBUTARY OF THE AMAZON BASIN IN BRAZIL |
| title_sort | helminthic endofauna of four species of fish from lower jari river a tributary of the amazon basin in brazil |
| topic | Amazon parasites freshwater fish hosts |
| url | https://institutodepesca.org/index.php/bip/article/view/1349 |
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