Endohelminths of Fishes of Commercial Importance from Vicente Guerrero Reservoir, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Por:
Garrido-Olvera, Lorena, Benavides-Gonzalez, Flaviano, Rabago-Castro, Jaime Luis, Perez-Castaneda, Roberto, Garcia-Prieto, Luis
Publicada:
1 jul 2017
Resumen:
During August 2016 we sampled fish from Vicente Guerrero Reservoir (also
known as Las Adjuntas Reservoir), Tamaulipas, Mexico to increase the
inventory of endohelminths parasitizing 3 species of fish inhabiting
this water body and to identify their possible zoonotic potential. We
collected 2 introduced species of fish, Cyprinus carpio (n = 10) and
Oreochromis aureus (n = 15), and 1 native species, Micropterus salmoides
(n = 17). The 2 introduced species were examined for parasites for the
first time from this reservoir. As result, we found 4 species of
parasite: 2 larvae of nematodes (Contracaecum sp. and Spiroxys sp.) and
2 trematodes (Posthodiplostomum minimum in the larval stage and adults
of Saccocoelioides sp.), but none with zoonotic potential. Only
nematodes parasitized 2 species of fish, but their prevalence and mean
intensities were not significantly different between the host species.
This work is the first parasitological study of O. aureus in Tamaulipas,
and the records of the trematodes and Spiroxys sp. in Vicente Guerrero
Reservoir represent new locality records.
Filiaciones:
Garrido-Olvera, Lorena:
Univ Autonoma Tamaulipas, Inst Ecol Aplicada, Div Golfo 356, Ciudad Victoria 87019, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Benavides-Gonzalez, Flaviano:
Univ Autonoma Tamaulipas, Fac Med Vet & Zootecnia, Carretera Victoria Mante Km 5, Ciudad Victoria 87000, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Rabago-Castro, Jaime Luis:
Univ Autonoma Tamaulipas, Fac Med Vet & Zootecnia, Carretera Victoria Mante Km 5, Ciudad Victoria 87000, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Perez-Castaneda, Roberto:
Univ Autonoma Tamaulipas, Fac Med Vet & Zootecnia, Carretera Victoria Mante Km 5, Ciudad Victoria 87000, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Garcia-Prieto, Luis:
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Biol, Ciudad Univ, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico
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