“…Despite the great diversity of marine fish and their economic importance, studies about the impact of parasites on the health of marine ichthyofauna in Brazil are scarce (Pavanelli et al, 2008). These studies do not exist for the northeastern region of Brazil, where the research already carried out so far has been restricted to the taxonomic identification and occurrence of marine fish parasites (Cavalcanti et al, 2013a(Cavalcanti et al, , 2013bHermida et al, 2014;Alves et al, 2018Alves et al, , 2020Cardoso et al, 2018).…”