title: Metacestodes of Glossocercus auritus (Cyclophyllidea, Gryporhynchidae) in Poecilia reticulata (Pisces, Poeciliidae) from Brazil.
abstract: Studies on fish parasites in Pampulha dam, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, found specimens of Poecilia reticulata Peters, 1859 harboring natural infection by larval stages of tapeworms. A total of 250 specimens of P. reticulata were collected and analyzed between February and August 2010, of which 23 were found infected (prevalence 9.2%) with one metacestode each (mean intensity 1, mean abundance 0.09). The analyses of the parasites, particularly the morphology of rostellar hooks, made it possible to identify Glossocercus auritus (Rudolphi, 1818). This is the first report of G. auritus metacestode in South America and P. reticulata is a newly known host for this parasite.
authors: Laboratório de Taxonomia e Biologia de Invertebrados, Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas,Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
authors: Hudson Alves
authors: HA
authors: Pinto
authors: Alan Lane de
authors: AL
authors: Melo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D002589:Cestoda / Q000502:physiology*; D007814:Larva; D011036:Poecilia / Q000469:parasitology*