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Inventory of Metazoan Parasites Associated with Anostomids in South America

Limnological Review
Anostomidae is one of the most diverse families within the order Characiformes and is widely distributed across the river basins of the Neotropical region. Anostomids are known to host a rich diversity of metazoan parasites, including ectoparasites, such
Wallas Benevides Barbosa de Sousa, Maria Fernanda Barros Gouveia Diniz, Fabio Hideki Yamada   +2 more
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Communities of parasite metazoans in Piaractus brachypomus (Pisces, Serrasalmidae) in the lower Amazon River (Brazil)

Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária, 2016
The aim of this study was to investigate the component community of parasite metazoans of Piaractus brachypomus in the lower Amazon River, northern Brazil.
Marcos Sidney Brito Oliveira, Marcos Tavares-Dias   +1 more
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Metazoan parasites of freshwater ornamental fishes [PDF]

Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 2017
This study aimed to characterize the metazoan parasitic fauna associated with freshwater farmed ornamental fish in Southern Brazil. Between July 2014 and January 2015, a total of 423 fish belonging to nine species were examined: Pterophylum scalare , Betta splendens , two varieties of Carassius auratus , Danio rerio , Xiphophorus helleri , two ...
Florindo, Maitê Coelho, Jerônimo, Gabriela Tomas, Steckert, Lilian Dordete, Acchile, Monyele, Figueredo, Aline Brum, Gonçalves, Eduardo Luiz Tavares, Cardoso, Lucas, Marchiori, Natalia da Costa, Assis, Guilherme da Costa, Martins, Maurício Laterça   +9 more
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Invasive Ponto-Caspian amphipods and fish increase the distribution range of the acanthocephalan Pomphorhynchus tereticollis in the river Rhine

, 2012
Non-indigenous species that become invasive are one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss worldwide. In various freshwater systems in Europe, populations of native amphipods and fish are progressively displaced by highly adaptive non-indigenous ...
Palm Harry W., Klimpel Sven, Emde, Sebastian, Palm, Harry Wilhelm, Sonja Rueckert, Emde Sebastian, Palm, Harry W., Sebastian Emde, Rueckert, Sonja, Rueckert Sonja, Harry W Palm, Rückert, Sonja, Klimpel, Sven, Sven Klimpel   +13 more
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Metazoan Parasites and Other Symbionts of Cetaceans in the Caribbean

The Journal of Parasitology, 1998
The parasite fauna in cetaceans from Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the larger Caribbean region is poorly known. We provide the first records for parasite biodiversity among a diverse assemblage of cetaceans from the Caribbean Sea. Internal and external parasites and commensals were collected from stranded whales and dolphins salvaged in Puerto ...
Mignucci-Giannoni, Antonio A., Hoberg, Eric P., Siegel-Causey, Doug, Williams, Ernest H., Jr.   +3 more
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Metazoan parasite fauna of two peacock-bass cichlid fish in Brazil [PDF]

Check List, 2013
A parasitological study of two freshwater cichlid fish of the genus Cichla (C. kelberi and C. piquiti) from six different aquatic ecosystems in Brazil was performed. Based on the survey, a checklist of the component community of the metazoan parasites of
Fabio Yamada, Ricardo Takemoto
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Community ecology of the metazoan parasites of freshwater fishes of Kerala. [PDF]

J Parasit Dis, 2012
The prevalence and mean intensity of metazoan parasite infection, the community characteristics (richness index, dominance index, evenness index and Shannon index of diversity) and the qualitative similarity of the metazoan parasite fauna among the species and families of the fishes were determined of 13 fish species of freshwater fishes of Kerala ...
Beevi MR, Radhakrishnan S.
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OBSERVATION ON THE INTESTINAL PARASITIC INFECTIONS [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 1986
During 1980-82, a total number of 4143 stool samples, from 2332 males and 1811 females, referred to the Central Laboratory of the School of Public Health, were examined for intestinal parasites.
M.Rezaeian
doaj   +2 more sources

Review of the fauna associated with wild and farmed mussels and oysters in the Mediterranean

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mussels and oysters are important ecosystem engineers which modify the physical and chemical characteristics of the environment and create habitats that support highly diverse associated communities. In the Mediterranean Sea, the native Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis and the European flat oyster Ostrea edulis, together the ...
Barbara Mikac, Marina Antonia Colangelo, Alessandro Tarullo, Marco Abbiati, Eugenio Fossi, Federica Costantini   +5 more
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Metazoan parasites of the lambari Astyanax altiparanae collected in the Batalha River, State of São Paulo, Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2017
Here we conduct a qualitative and quantitative analysis of ectoparasites and endoparasites of Astyanax altiparanae (Garutti & Britski, 2000), popularly known as lambari-do-rabo-amarelo collected from the Batalha River, State of São Paulo, Brazil.
D. C. Negrelli, V. D. Abdallah, R. K. Azevedo   +2 more
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