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Records of new localities and hosts for crustacean parasites in fish from the eastern Amazon in northern Brazil

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The aim of this study was to investigate parasites crustacean fauna in Arapaima gigas, Cichla monoculus, Cichla ocellaris, Cichla jariina, Satanoperca jurupari, Leporinus friderici, Leporinus fasciatus, Hoplias malabaricus, Phractocephalus hemioliopterus, Serrasalmus altispinis, Pseudoplatystoma tigrinum and Potamotrygon motoro of the State Amapá and Pará, in northern Brazil. A total of 242 parasites, including Argulus elongatus, Argulus multicolor, Argulus juparanaensis, Argulus nattereri, Dolops discoidalis, Dolops longicauda, Braga patagonica, Braga fluviatilis, Livoneca guianensis and undetermined Lernaeidae, were collected from these hosts. The Argulus species had the greatest richness among the community of parasitic crustaceans. There was a low abundance of parasites among the hosts, other than D. discoidalis, was most abundant in the integument of A. gigas and P. tigrinum. Finally, the present study reported nine new hosts for the crustacean parasite species and expanded knowledge of the occurrence of some parasite species in the Jari River basin, in eastern Amazon.

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Dr. M. Tavares-Dias was supported by research fellowships from the Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico (CNPq, Brazil).

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  1. Programa de Pós-graduação em Recursos Aquáticos Continentais Amazônicos (PPG-RACAM), Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará-UFOPA, Av. Mendonça Furtado, nº 2946, Fátima, Santarém, Pará, CEP 68040-470, Brazil

    Marcos Sidney Brito Oliveira & Lincoln Lima Corrêa

  2. Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologia das Águas - ICTA, Santarém, Pará, Brazil

    Marcos Sidney Brito Oliveira & Lincoln Lima Corrêa

  3. Embrapa Amapá, Rodovia Juscelino Kubitschek, Km 5, nº 2600, Universidade, Macapá, Amapá, CEP 68903-419, Brazil

    Drielly Oliveira Ferreira, Lígia Rigor Neves & Marcos Tavares-Dias

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Oliveira, M.S.B., Corrêa, L.L., Oliveira Ferreira, D. et al. Records of new localities and hosts for crustacean parasites in fish from the eastern Amazon in northern Brazil. J Parasit Dis 41, 565–570 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12639-016-0852-8

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