“…Current knowledge about the biodiversity of parasites in Colossoma macropomum (Cuvier, 1818), a Serrasalmidae popularly known as tambaqui, shows that monogeneans represent the majority of helminth species that reported parasitizing this fish species in different localities (Kritsky et al, 1979;Pamplona-Basilio et al, 2001;Fischer et al, 2003;Cohen & Kohn, 2005Morais et al, 2009;Godoi et al, 2012;Soberon et al, 2014;Chagas et al, 2016;Baia et al, 2019;Fujimoto et al, 2019;Mangas et al, 2020).…”