Ecological aspects of metazoan parasites of Astyanax altiparanae garutti & britski, 2000 (characidae) of the upper Paraná river floodplain, Brazil
Keywords:
parasite-hosts relation, Astyanax altiparanae, floodplain, Paraná River, BrazilAbstract
One hundred and ninety specimens of Astyanax altiparanae Garutti & Britski, 2000 were collected in the upper Paraná River floodplain, Brazil, between February 2000 and November 2001, with the aim to identify the parasite fauna and to observe the ecological aspects of metazoan parasites of A. altiparanae. A total of 3,908 parasite specimens of 23 species were collected. The metacercarian Ascocotyle (Ascocotyle) tenuicollis Price, 1935 was the most abundant and the acanthocephalan Quadrigyrus sp. was the most prevalent. According to degree of importance, all species were classified as satellites. The community of metazoan parasites of A. altiparanae showed a typical over-dispersion pattern. The diversity mean was H = 0.1492 ± 0.2406. Ascocotyle (A.) tenuicollis had a significant correlation between standard length and parasitism abundance and prevalence. The monogenean Amphitecium sp. had a significant correlation only between parasitism prevalence and host length classes. No significant differences in abundance and prevalence of parasitism, by sex, were observed.
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Revista Brasileira de Zoociências, Juiz de Fora, 4(1):19-30.
BRASIL-SATO, M.C. and PAVANELLI, G.C. 1999 Ecological and reproductive aspects of
Neoechinorhynchus pimelodi Brasil-Sato & Pavanelli (Eoacantocephala, Neoechinorhynchidae) of Pimelodus maculatus Lacépí¨de (Siluroidei, Pimelodidae) of the São Francisco River, Brasil.Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, Curitiba, 16: 73-82.
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(Tese de Doutoramento. Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, UEM).
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Parasitologia Veterinária, Rio de Janeiro, 3(2):143-148.
MACHADO, P.M.; ALMEIDA, S.C. DE; PAVANELLI, G.C.; TAKEMOTO, R.M. 2000 Ecological aspects of Endohelminths paraziting Cichla monoculus Spix, 1831 (Perciformes: Cichlidae) in the Paraná River near Porto Rico, State of Paraná, Brazil. Comparative Parasitology, Cambridge, 6(2): 210-217.
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OSTROWSKI DE NUí"˜ES, M. 1993 Life history studies of heterophyd trematodes in the Neotropical Region: Ascocotyle (Phagicola) diminuta (Stunkard & Haviland, 1924) and A. (P.) angrense Travassos, 1916. Systematic Parasitology, Dordrecht, 24: 191-
199.
ROHDE, K. 1993 Ecology of marine parasites. An introduction to marine parasitology. 2nd ed.United Kingdon: CAB INTERNATIONAL, 297p.
TAKEMOTO, R.M. and PAVANELLI, G.C. 1994 Aspects of the ecology of proteocephalid cestodes parasites of Sorubim lima (Pimelodidae) of the Upper Paraná River, Brazil: Structure and influence of host’s size and sex. Revista Brasileira de Biologia,
São Carlos, 60(4): 577-584.
THATCHER, V.E. 1991 Amazon fish parasites. Amazoniana, Manaus, 11(3/4): 263-571.
THATCHER, V.E. 1993 Trematodeos neotropicais.Manaus: INPA. 553p.
ZAR, J.H. 1996 Biostatistical Analysis. 3rd ed. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 662p.
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