OCCURRENCE OF Paraleiuris locchii E Paraleiuris vazi IN Bradypus variegatus IN THE STATE OF PARÁ, BRAZIL

• Autor(a) principal: Araujo, Shirley Conceição Gonçalves Ferreira
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Branco, Érika, de Lima, Ana Rita, Pinheiro, Raul Henrique da Silva, Giese, Elane Guerreiro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biota Amazônia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unifap.br/index.php/biota/article/view/4169
• topic: Nematoda, Spirocercidae, Mamíferos, Bradypodidae, Amazônia

Sloths act as hosts for several parasites, but for nematodes there are few taxonomic studies of this community. Thus, the objective of this work is to add morphological and morphometric data to the parasitic nematodes of Bradypus variegatus stomach in Pará State. The stomach and intestine were analyzed in seven specimes of B. variegatus, the recovered nematodes were fixed, clarified and analyzed by light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. Only the stomach of five specimes of B. variegatus were parasitized by nematodes, which morphologically and morphometrically were similar to the genus Paraleuiris and the species P. locchii and P. vazi, both already reported parasitizing mammals in Brazil. Although not the first occurrence of these nematodes in sloths, this paper describes for the first time the occurrence of P. vazi in B. variegatus in Brazil and P. locchii in the State of Pará, thus expanding the biogeographic distribution of both species.Keywords: Nematoda; parasite; mammals; Bradypodidae; Amazon.