PARASITISM OF CESTODES FROM Trypanorhyncha ORDER IN THE MUSCULATURE OF Plagioscion squamosissimus (PERCIFORME: SCIAENIDAE), COMMERCIALIZED IN MACAPÁ, AP/BRAZIL

Authors

  • Antônio Carlos Souza Silva Júnior Universidade Federal do Pará
  • Cecile de Souza Gama Instituto de Pesquisas Científicas e Tecnológicas do Amapá

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/cab.v11i3.8495

Keywords:

Animal parasitology

Abstract

The objective of this research was to determine the species of cestodes from the Trypanorhyncha order that parasites the Plagioscion squamosissimus Heckel, 1840 (Brazilian common name: Pescada Branca), which are commercialized at fairs from Macapá, Amapá State, Brazil. From March 2008 to December 2008, 80 specimens of P. squamosissimus were submitted to necropsy, from which 63 fish (78.8%) were parasitized by larvae plerocercoids from Trypanorhyncha order. A multiple parasitism of four species, Pterobothrium heteracanthum, Callitetrarhynchus gracilis, Poecilancistrium caryophyllum, Pterobothrium crassicolle was recorded in the musculature of the fish. Larvae plerocercoids from Trypanorhyncha in the musculature do not present any risk of infection for humans, but affect the aesthetics of the fish, for its repulsive aspect, and may be rejected by consumers and often have the commercialization prevented by the sanitary fiscalization. This was the first record of parasites of musculature in fish proceeding from the State of Amapá.

KEYWORDS: Amapá, fish, Trypanorhyncha.

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Author Biographies

Antônio Carlos Souza Silva Júnior, Universidade Federal do Pará

Formado em Licenciatura Plena em Ciências Biológicas pela Universidade Federal do Amapá, e atualmente é mestrando do Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciência Animal (Ecologia Aquática e Aquicultura) da Universidade Federal do Pará, possui experiência com Recursos Aquáticos onde já desenvolveu projetos de Pesquisa em diversas instituições nas áreas de Ictiologia, Piscicultura e Parasitologia de Organismos Aquáticos, onde já ganhou prêmios como destaque científico. Ainda possui experiência na área Educacional onde já lecionou disciplinas como Ciências (Ensino Fundamental), Biologia e Química (Ensino Médio) na Rede Pública de Educação do Estado do Amapá

Cecile de Souza Gama, Instituto de Pesquisas Científicas e Tecnológicas do Amapá

Área de Atuação: Ictiologia

Curadora da coleção ictiológica do Estado do Amampá

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Published

2010-10-02

How to Cite

SILVA JÚNIOR, A. C. S.; GAMA, C. de S. PARASITISM OF CESTODES FROM Trypanorhyncha ORDER IN THE MUSCULATURE OF Plagioscion squamosissimus (PERCIFORME: SCIAENIDAE), COMMERCIALIZED IN MACAPÁ, AP/BRAZIL. Brazilian Animal Science/ Ciência Animal Brasileira, Goiânia, v. 11, n. 3, p. 737–742, 2010. DOI: 10.5216/cab.v11i3.8495. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/vet/article/view/8495. Acesso em: 27 jul. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 3 (2010)

Section

Veterinary Medicine

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