Title:	New hosts and distribution records of Braga patagonica, a parasite cymothoidae of fishes from the Amazon.
Authors:	TAVARES-DIAS, M ARAÚJO, C. S. O. BARROS, M. S. VIANA, G. M.
Affiliation:	MARCOS TAVARES-DIAS, CPAF-AP.
Date Issued:	2014
Citation:	Brazilian Journal of Aquatic Science and Technology, Itajai, v. 18, n. 1, p. 91-97, 2014.
Description:	Specimens of Braga patagonica Schiödte & Meinert, 1884 (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from freshwater fishes deposited in Ichthyological Collection of Amazon National Research Institute (INPA), in central Amazon and from fishes from eastern Amazon (Brazil) were investigated. Prevalence, infection intensity and body measures of B. patagonica for different populations of this cymothoid in wild fishes species from Amazon were carried out. Four species of Serrasalmidae, one Characidae, one Cichlidae, one Cynodontidae, one Curimatidae, one Acestrorhynchidae and one Sciaenidae were recorded as new hosts for B. patagonica in the Amazon. This study indicates a low intensity and low parasitic specificity of B. patagonica, and also recorded the first parasitism by this ectoparasite in farmed Colossoma macropomum, describing its highly pathogenic effect.
Thesagro:	Crustáceo Peixe de água doce
NAL Thesaurus:	freshwater fish
Keywords:	Crustacean Animal parasit Cymothoid Parasito animal
Type of Material:	Artigo de periódico
Access:	openAccess
Appears in Collections:	Artigo em periódico indexado (CPAF-AP)