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Massive Infestation by Neoechinorhynchus Buttnerae PDF
Massive Infestation by Neoechinorhynchus Buttnerae PDF
Massive Infestation by Neoechinorhynchus Buttnerae PDF
J o s é C e l s o d e Oliveira M A L T A , A n a L ú c i a Silva G O M E S ,
Sanny Maria Sampaio de A N D R A D E , Angela Maria Bezerra VARELLA
ABSTRACT — The fishes Colossoma macropomum (Cuvier, 1818) from a farm fish stopped
to eat and begun to die. Seventy-two fishes caught were examined. All fishes had a high intesti
nal infestation for Acanthocephala. The species was Neoechinorhynchus buttnerae Golvan, 1956.
The prevalence was 100%, intensity range 30-406 and mean intensity and relative density (abun
dance) were 125,26. In the high infestations occurred the total occlusion of the gut lumen.
Key-words: Acanthocephala; fish parasites; tambaqui; fish mortality; aquaculture.