“…In general, protozoan and metazoan species can cause many of the economic losses that occur in ornamental fish (Hoshino, Hoshino, & Tavares-Dias, 2018) due to damages histopathological (Santos et al, 2017). The exportation of ornamental fish may therefore represent a gateway for parasites in new environments (Alves, Luque, Paraguassú, & Marques, 2000;Thilakaratne, Rajapaksha, Hewakopara, Rajapakse, & Faizal, 2003;Trujillo-González, Becker, Vaughan, & Hutson, 2018) into country due to the translocation of hosts and parasites, as well as in other countries, due to the lack of care with sanitary management during this phase of commercialization.…”