Checklist of Crustacea parasitizing fishes from Brazil

Abstract

Materials and MethodsThe list of parasitic crustaceans of fishes in Brazil was based on extensive search of published records. This bibliographic review of the crustacean species reported from fishes in Brazilian waters was complemented with information from the Zoological Record, Biological Abstracts, Web of Knowledge, Google Scholar, Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts, Biological and Agricultural Index Plus and the Scopus. Data were compiled until March, 2013. In the case of parasitic copepods, only information not presented in the checklist of Copepoda parasites of fishes from Brazil by Luque and Tavares (2007) was included. The number of parasitic associations was calculated from the sum of the richness of species of parasites on each host species.The checklist follows the classification and systematic arrangement proposed by Boxshall and Halsey (2004) for Copepoda, and Young (1998) and Martin and Davis (2001) for other crustacean groups.The species of crustaceans are arranged according to taxonomic categories, within which the species are presented in alphabetical order, followed by hosts (specific name), site of infection, habitat, localities and references (between parentheses, in chronological order). In addition, the checklist also includes crustacean species identified only at the genus level and undetermined species. Crustacean names presented in the checklist follow the most recent taxonomic literature, but validity of individual taxa or reliability of their records was not critically examined by the present authors. Host species were arranged in taxonomic and then alphabetical order.The key to identification of the genera of parasitic crustaceans from fishes in Brazil has been produced on the basis of those by Delaney

First record of Caligus mutabilis (Copepoda: Caligidae), in sea-farmed Mycteroperca microlepis (Perciformes: Serranidae) in Brazil

“…The specimens collected in the present study corroborate the data collected by Cressey and Cressey (1980). On the coast of the Rio de Janeiro state it is a well-known species and has previously been recorded in fish of the families Carangidae, Scombridae, Sparidae and Ephippidae TAVARES, 2007).…”

“…According to Luque and Tavares (2007), 24 species of Caligus are found along the Brazilian coast parasitizing 57 fish species. In this paper, we present the first record of a sealouse species (Caligus mutabilis) in farmed fish in Brazil.…”

Metazoan parasites of Geophagus brasiliensis (Perciformes: Cichlidae) in Patos lagoon, extreme south of Brazil

“…Ergasilus lizae has already been reported parasitizing the gill filaments of Mugil curema (Valenciennes, 1836) (CAVALCANTI et al, 2011) and Mugil planatus (Günther, 1880) (LUQUE & TAVARES, 2007) in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. For the state of Rio Grande do Sul, this is a new record of occurrence.…”

Seasonal variability of the composition and structure of parasite communities of red porgy, Pagrus pagrus (Perciformes: Sparidae) off Brazil

“…The collection and processing of the parasites was made according to Eiras et al (2006). The identifi cation of the parasites follows Tavares and Luque (2006) for anisakid larvae, Cohen et al (2013) for Monogenea, Kohn et al (2007) for Digenea, and Santos et al (2008) for Acanthocephala and Luque et al (2013). The statistics analysis included only parasite species with prevalence higher than 10 % (Bush et al, 1990).…”