Composi??o e estrutura das comunidades de metazo?rios parasitos de sete esp?cies de peixes do Reservat?rio de Lajes, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Paraguass?, Aline Rodrigues
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRRJ
• Texto Completo: https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/tede/799
• topic: ecologia parasit?ria; estrutura da comunidade; peixes de ?gua doce; Reservat?rio de Lajes; parasite ecology; community structure; freshwater fishes; Lajes Reservoirs; Medicina Veterin?ria

From April 2002 to July 2003, 296 freshwater fishes from Lajes Reservoirs in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (22?42 - 22?50 S, 43?53 - 44?05 W) were necropsied to study their community metazoan parasites: 39 Astyanax bimaculatus (Linnaeus, 1758), 79 A. fasciatus (Cuvier, 1819), 65 Geophagus brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824), 23 Hypostomus affinis (Steindachner, 1877), 26 Hoplias malabaricus (Bloch, 1794), 30 Loricariichthys castaneus (Castelnau, 1855) and 34 Trachelyopterus striatulus (Steindachner, 1877). The majority specimens of G. brasiliensis (81.5%), H. affinis (95.6%) and H. malabaricus (84.6%) was parasitized by one or more metazoan species. In A. bimaculatus, A. fasciatus, L. castaneus and T. striatulus 41%, 39.2%, 56.7 and 14.7% of specimens were parasitized, respectively.Ten different metazoan parasites species were collected: 2 in A. bimaculatus, 3 in A. fasciatus, 6 in G. brasiliensis, 3 in H. affinis, 4 in H. malabaricus, 4 in L. castaneus and 1 in T. striatulus. Six species were common in at least two communities. The glossiophonid was collected in 6 communities. The larval stage of digeneans were the majority of the parasite specimens collected in H. malabaricus and L. castaneus with 45.9% and 80.4%, respectively. In A. bimaculatus and A. fasciatus the nematodes were the majority of the parasite specimens collected, while in G. brasiliensis and H. affinis the hirudine glossiophonid was the majority of the parasite specimens collected. Only one spcecies of monogenean was collected in T. striatulus. The parasite of 7 host species showed the typical aggregate pattern of distribution. Two cases of negative correlation between host s total length and prevalence and parasite abundance were found. The parasite community of L. castaneus showed the higher values of mean intensity, index of dispersion and higher values of diversity. While the parasite community of H. affinis showed the higher values of mean abundance and the mean parasite species richness. Only in A. fasciatus and L. castaneus the abundance and parasite species richness showed positive correlations with the host s total length. Geophagus brasiliensis was the species with higher number of species: ectoparasites (3), adult endoparasites (1) and larval stage of endoparasites (2). The parasite communities of the studied fishes showed scarcity of significant correlation of parasitic abundance, scpecies richness and diversity and the size of the host. The low scpecies richness and diversity of parasite communities could be attribute by oligotrophic characteristics of the Lajes Reservoirs.