Relatório da excursäo do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz ao Município de Santa Teresa, no Estado do Espírito Santo, em agôsto e setembro de 1943

The Parasites <i>Monascus</i> sp. (Fellodistomidae) and <i>Helicometrina nimia</i> (Linton, 1910) (Opecoelidae) Digenea of <i>Pampus argenteus</i> and Greasy Grouper <i>Epinephelus tauvina</i> (Forsskl, 1775) (Teleostei: Serranidae) Fishes, Arabian Gulf, New Host and New Geographical Records

“…Most records are from fishes of the family Carangidae. The Original name of the genus Monascus are Haplocladus filiformis (Rudolphi, 1819), and synonym are Haplocladus minor (Odhner 1911); synonym Haplocladus orientalis (Srivastava, 1941); synonym according to Bray and Gibson (1980), Haplocladus typicus (Odhner, 1911), Monascus elongatus (Karyakarte and Yadav, 1976), Monascus monenteron (Looss, 1907), Monascus ovilobatus (Kumari, 1975), Monascus typicus (Odhner, 1911;Looss, 1912); synonym Monascus netoi (Travassos et al, 1967); synonym Monascus orientalis (Srivastava, 1941;Yamaguti, 1958); in addition to that Monascus trilobatus (Bilqees, 1973).…”

“…Helicometrina nimia (Linton, 1910) has been reported from marine fishes along the Pacific, California, to Valdivia, southern Chile, and Atlantic to Espiritu Santo, Brazil, coasts of the Americas (Linton, 1910;Manter, 1940;Manter and Van Cleave, 1951;Travassos et al, 1967;Inzunza et al, 1989). Helicometrina nimia is a digenean with wide distribution.…”

“…In the Atlantic Ocean, M. filiformis has been found only in five species of fish, Brazil: Chloroscombrus chrysurus (Carangidae) and Trachurus lathami (Carangidae) (Amato, 1982), Oligoplites saurus (Carangidae) (Travassos et al, 1965;1967), Peprilus paru (Stromateidae) (Wallet and Khon, 1987), Micropogonias furnieri (Sciaenidae) (Pereira et al, 2000); and from cold temperate waters of Argentina it was reported infesting only Trachurus lathami (Girola et al, 1992).…”

Helicometrina nimia Linton, 1910 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) in dusky grouper Epinephelus marginatus (Lowe, 1834) (Teleostei: Serranidae) from southeastern Brazil

“…Permanent microscopy slides were prepared in Erv-mount. Linton, 1910 Taxonomic summary Synonyms: Helicometrina orientalis (Srivastava, 1936) and Helicometrina elongata (Hardy, 1972) (by Deelman, 1960, not accepted by Saoud et al, 1988 (Bravo, 1954); Cephalopholis fulva (Linnaeus, 1758) (Sparks, 1957;Caballero, 1990;Nahhas and Carlson, 1994); Epinephelus analogus Gill, 1863(Sogandares-Bernal, 1959; Scorpaena plumieri Bloch, 1789 (Siddiqi and Cable, 1960;Travassos et al, 1967) (Nahhas and Cable, 1964); Lagocephalus laevigatus (Linnaeus, 1766) (Travassos et al, 1967); Epinephelus diacanthus (Valenciennes, 1828) (Zaidi and Khan, 1977;Bilqees, 1981); Nemipterus peronii (=N. tolu) (Valenciennes, 1830) (Al-Yamani and Nahhas, 1981); Cymatogaster aggregata Gibbons, 1854(Arai et al, 1988; Calliclinus geniguttatus (Valenciennes, 1836), Calliclinus nudiventris Cervigón and Pequeño, 1979 (Inzunza et al, 1989); Paralabrax humeralis (Valenciennes, 1828), Acanthistius pictus (Tschudi, 1846), Anisotremus scapularis (Tschudi, 1846) (Oliva and Muñoz, 1985); Sebastes capensis (Gmelin, 1789) (Oliva and Muñoz, 1985;Bray, 2001;Oliva and Gonzalez, 2004); Cephalopholis fulvus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Caballero, 1990); Bothus lunatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (León, 1992) (Steindachner, 1876).…”

“…Localities (Figure 1): Tortugas, United States (Type locality) Linton, 1910;United States (Arai et al, 1988); Bahamas (Sparks, 1957;Sogandares-Bernal and Hutton, 1959); Jamaica (Nahhas and Carlson, 1994); Puerto Rico (Siddiqi and Cable, 1960;Bunkley-Williams et al, 1996); Mexico (Manter, 1940;Bravo, 1954;Arai, 1962;Caballero, 1990;León, 1992;Moravec et al, 1997); Panama (Sogandares-Bernal and Hutton, 1959); Arabian Gulf (Al-Yamani and Nahhas, 1981); Pakistan (Bilqees, 1981); India (Gudivada and Vankara, 2010); Chile (Oliva and Muñoz, 1985;Inzunza et al, 1989;Luque and Oliva, 1993;Oliva and Gonzalez, 2004;Muñoz-Muga and Muñoz, 2010); Brazil (Travassos et al, 1967;present study).…”