Parasitic diseases of freshwater ornamental fishes commercialized in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Authors

  • Rômi Sharon Piazza PIBIC/CNPq/UFSC
  • Maurício Laterça Martins Produtividade em Pesquisa/CNPq / Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Departamento de Aq-­¼icultura, CCA http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0862-6927
  • Luciana Guiraldelli Mestrado/Departamento de Aq-­¼icultura/CAPES
  • Marcela Maia Yamashita Mestrado/Departamento de Aq-­¼icultura

Keywords:

ornamental fish, parasites, diseases, prevalence, infection

Abstract

The parasitic fauna of ornamental fish from Florianópolis, SC, Brazil was evaluated from June 2004 through June 2005. Xiphophorus maculatus (n=88), Xiphophorus helleri (n=27), Poecilia sphenops (n=20), Macropodus opercularis (n=20), Trichogaster tricopterus (n=9), Beta splendens (n=8), Puntius conchonius (n=7), Carassius auratus (n=6), Gymnocorymbus ternetzi (n=4) were analyzed. From a total of 189 examined fishes, 65 (34%) were parasitized: 15.3% with metacercariae of Ascocotyle (Digenea); 15.3% with Monogenoidea; 6.9% with Piscinoodinium pillulare (Dinoflagellida); 4.7% with Trichodina acuta (Ciliophora); 3.7% with Ichthyophthirius multifiliis (Ciliophora); 2.6% with cestodes; 2.6% with Camallanus maculatus (Nematoda); 2.1% with Lernaea cyprinacea (Crustacea) and 0.5% with Chilodonella sp. (Ciliophora). The largest mean intensities of infection were 335 and 205, respectively to X. maculatus and X. helleri infected by metacercariae in the gills.

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2018-10-29

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