PARASITES IN GILLS OF Aequidens tetramerus, CICHLID FROM THE LOWER JARI RIVER, AN TRIBUTARY OF THE AMAZON RIVER, NORTHERN BRAZIL
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https://doi.org/10.20950/1678-2305.2019.45.1.485Keywords:
Freshwater fish, Cichlid, Gills, EctoparasitesAbstract
The aim of this study was to investigate for the first time the parasite fauna in the Aequidens tetramerus gills of the lower Jari River, State of Amapá (Brazil). In January 2017, 31 specimens of A. tetramerus were collected and they were necropsied using usual methodologies for parasitology of fish. A total of 1,181 parasites were collect and 100% of hosts were parasitized by Gussevia disparoides, Gussevia alioides, Posthodiplostomum sp., Clinostomum sp., Dolops longicauda and Acarina gen. sp. The dominance was of G. disparoides and there was aggregated dispersion of G. disparoides, Posthodiplostomum sp. and Clinostomum sp., while the dispersion of G. alioides, D. longicauda and Acarina gen. sp was random. There were low species richness of parasites (2.45 ± 0.68), low Brillouin diversity index (0.52 ± 0.22), evenness (0.37 ± 0.15) and high Berger-Parker dominance (0.70 ± 0.15). The parasites community was characterized by low richness of species with high prevalence and low parasitic abundance. Host length had little influence on the abundance of parasites, but host behavior and availability of infective stages of parasites were the factors structuring the parasite community in A. tetramerus. This was the first study on parasites of A. tetramerus from the Jari River basin.
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Cardoso, A. C.; Couceiro, S.R. M. 2017. Insects in the diet of fish from Amazonian streams, in western Pará, Brazil. Marine and Freshwater Research, 68(11): 2052-2060. https://doi.org/10.1071/MF16173
Dogiel, V.A. 1961. Ecology of the parasites of freshwater fishes. In: Dogiel, V.A.; Petrushevski, G. K.; Polyanski, Y.I. (Eds). Parasitology of fishes. Translated by Z. Kabata. 1st ed. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. p. 1-47.
Eiras, J.C.; Takemoto, R. M.; Pavanelli, G.C. 2006. Métodos de estudo e técnicas laboratoriais em parasitologia de peixes. 2a ed. Maringá: Ed. EDUEM. 199p.
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Ferreira, E. J. G., Zuanon, J. A.; Santos, G. M. 1998. Peixes comerciais do médio Amazonas: região de Santarém, Pará. 214p.
Froese, R.; Pauly, D. Editors. 2018. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org. version (06/2018).
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Oliveira, M.S.B.; Gonçalves, R.A., Neves, L. R., Ferreira, D.O.; Tavares-Dias, M. 2017c. Ectoparasites community in Satanoperca jurupari (Cichlidae) from the Jari River, a tributary from Amazon River in Northern Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária, 26(2): 136-142. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1984-29612017028
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Pinheiro, D.T.; Corrêa, J. M.S.; Chaves, C.S.; Campos, D. P. F.; Ponte, S.C.S.; Zacardi, D.M. 2016. Diversidade e distribuição da ictiofauna associada a bancos de macrófitas aquáticas de um lago de inundação amazônico, estado do Pará, Brasil. Acta of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, 4(2): 59-70.
Ritossa, L.; Flores, V.; Viozzi, G. 2013. Life-cycle stages of a Posthodiplostomum species (Digenea: Diplostomidae) fromPatagonia, Argentina. The Journal of Parasitogy, l99(5): 777í 780. doi: 10.1645/12-170.1. Epub 2013 Apr 29.
Rohde, K.; Hayward, C.; Heap, M. 1995. Aspects of the ecology of metazoan ectoparasites of marine fishes. The Journal of Parasitology, 25(8): 945-970. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1016/0020-7519(95)00015-T.
Rózsa, L.; Reiczigel, J.; Marjoros, G. 2000. Quantifying parasites in samples of hosts. The Journal of Parasitology, 86(2): 228í 232. doi: 10.1645/0022-3395(2000)086[0228: QPISOH]2.0.CO;2
Santos, G.G.; Oliveira, M.S.B.; Neves, L.R.; Tavares-Dias, M. 2018. Parasites community of Astronotus crassipinnis (Cichlidae), a fish from the Brazilian Amazon. Annals of Parasitology, 64(2): 121í 128. doi: 10.17420/ap6402.143
Takemoto R.M; Pavanelli G.C.; Lizama M. A. P.; Lacerda A. C. F.; Yamada F. H.; Moreira L. H. A.; Ceschini T.L.; Bellay, S. 2009. Diversity of parasites of fish from the Upper Paraná River floodplain, Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Biology, 69(2): 691í 705. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1519-69842009000300023
Tavares-Dias, M.; Oliveira, M.S.B.; Gonçalves, R.A.; Silva, L.M.A. 2014. Ecology and seasonal variation of parasites in wild Aequidens tetramerus, a Cichlidae from the Amazon. Acta Parasitologica, 59( 1): 158í 164. doi: 10.2478/s11686-014-0225-3. Epub 2014 Feb 26.
Tavares-Dias, M.; Gonçalves, R.A; Oliveira, M.S.B.; Neves, L.R. 2017. Ecological aspects of the parasites in Cichlasoma bimaculatum (Cichlidae), ornamental fish from the Brazilian Amazon. Acta Biológica Colombiana, 22(2): 175-180. doi: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.15446/ abc.v22n2.60015
Zar, J.H. 2010. Biostatistical analysis. 5th ed. Prentice Hall, New Jersey. 944p.
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