Metazoan parasite communities of three endemic cichlid fish species from the upper Grijalva River, Chiapas, Mexico

Paredes-Trujillo, A.; Martínez-Aquino, A.; Rodiles-Hernández, R.; González-Solís, D.

Metazoan parasite communities of three endemic cichlid fish species from the upper Grijalva River, Chiapas, Mexico

Helminthologia

Volume 57 (2020): Issue 4 (December 2020)

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A. Paredes-Trujillo, A. Martínez-Aquino, R. Rodiles-Hernández and D. González-Solís

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Study area showing the two localities (Angostura Dam and Columbus Lakes) where fishes were collected.

Metazoan parasites found in Chiapaheros grammodes (Cg, n = 84), Vieja breidohri (Vb, n = 153) and V_ hartwegi (Vh, n = 180) from the upper Grijalva River Basin_ Abbreviations: Au: Autogenic, Al: Allogenic, G: Generalist, P (%): Prevalence, S: Specialist, SD: Standard deviation_

Parasite species	Infection site	Status	Host	No. of individual parasites	Infected fish	P (%)	Mean intensity (± SD)	Mean abundance (± SD)
DIGENEA
Adults
Crassicutis cichlasomae Manter, 1936	Intestine	S/Au	Vh	458	110	72	4.16 ± 6.15	3 ± 10.22
			Vb	1550	140	78	11.07 ± 14.1	9 ± 13.11
			Cg	23	11	13	2.09 ± 1.60	0.27 ± 0.85
Genarchella isabellae (Lamothe-Argumedo, 1977)	Stomach	G/Au	Vh	46	18	12	2.55 ± 2.12	0.30 ± 1.04
			Vb	126	24	13	5.25 ± 4.01	0.70 ± 2.33
			Cg	205	26	31	8 ± 8.64	2.44 ± 4.83
Larvae
Posthodiplostomum cf. minimum (MacCallum, 1921)	Gills, Muscle,	G/Al	Vh	429	46	30	9.32 ± 6.6	2.80 ± 3.72
	Eyes
			Vb	725	69	38	11 ± 7.60	4.02 ± 5.11
			Cg	304	25	30	12.16 ± 13.7	3.6 ± 5.5
Clinostomum cf. complanatum (Rudolphi, 1814)	Muscle	G/Al	Vh	112	28	18	4 ± 5.46	0.73 ± 2.70
			Vb	41	20	11	2 ± 1.58	0.22 ± 0.78
			Cg	20	4	5	5 ± 2.36	0.23 ± 0.92
Cladocystis cf. trifolium (Braun, 1901)	Gills	G/Al	Vh	499	58	38	9 ± 10.09	3.26 ± 7.09
			Vb	80	25	14	3.23 ± 2.04	0.44 ± 1.22
			Cg	5	2	2	3 ± 0	0.06 ± 0.43
Diplostomum (Austrodiplostomum) cf. compactum (Lutz, 1928)	Eyes	G/Al	Vh	25	24	16	1.04 ± 1.05	0.16 ± 0.4
			Vb	9	5	3	1.8 ± 1.01	0.05 ± 0.2
			Cg	343	52	62	7 ± 10.3	4.08 ± 3.98
MONOGENEA
Adult
Sciadicleithrum bravohollisae Kritsky, Vidal-Martínez & Rodríguez-Canul, 1994
	Gills	S/Au	Vh	33	14	9	2.4 ± 1.05	0.21 ± 0.96
			Vb	54	36	20	1.5 ± 0.92	0.35 ± 0.70
CESTODA			Cg	9	3	4	3 ± 2.86	0.10 ± 1.01
Adult
Schyzocotyle acheilognathi (Yamaguti, 1934)	Intestine	G/Au	Vb	2	1	1	2 ± 0	0.01 ± 0.32
			Cg	2	1	1	2 ± 0	0.02 ± 0.31
NEMATODA
Adults
Cucullanus angeli Cabañas-Carranza & Caspeta-Mandujano, 2007
	Intestine	S/Au	Vh	16	11	7	1.45 ± 0.9	0.10 ± 0.7
			Vb	1	1	1	1 ± 0	0.005 ± 0.10
			Cg	3	1	1	3 ± 1.1	0.03 ± 0.46
Raillietnema kritscheri Moravec, Salgado-Maldonado & Pineda-López, 1993
	Intestine	G/Au	Vh	1204	25	16	48.16 ± 144.5	8 ± 66.06
Goezia nonipapillata Osorio-Sarabia, 1982	Intestine	G/Au	Vh	19	6	3	3.16 ± 4.9	0.12 ± 1.11
			Vb	2	5	3	0.4 ± 0	0.01 ± 0.15
			Cg	3	3	4	1 ± 0	0.03 ± 0.46
Larva
Contracaecum sp. type 2	Mesenteries,	G/Al	Vh	73	43	28	1.7 ± 0.1	0.47 ± 1.6
	Liver		Vb	52	49	27	1.06 ± 1.11	0.28 ± 0.7
			Cg	172	58	69	3 ± 2.5	2.04 ± 2
ACANTHOCEPHALA
Adult
Neoechinorhynchus golvani Salgado-Maldonado, 1978	Intestine	G/Au	Vh	111	39	25	2.84 ± 2.01	0.72 ± 0.04
			Vb	59	32	18	1.84 ± 1.11	0.32 ± 1.09
			Cg	15	7	8	2.14 ± 1.7	0.17 ± 0.69
Larva Polymorphus brevis (van Cleave, 1916)	Stomach	G/Al	Vb	3	1	1	3 ± 4.66	0.01 ± 0.15
HIRUDINEA
Adult
Myzobdella sp.	Fins	G/Au	Vh	15	12	8	1.25 ± 0.67	0.09 ± 0.40
			Vb	20	24	13	0.85 ± 1	0.11 ± 0.40
			Cg	6	5	6	1.2 ± 0	0.07 ± 0.24
PENTASTOMIDA
Larva
Sebekia sp.	Mesenteries	G/Au	Vh	4	1	1	4 ± 5.32	0.02 ± 0.28
COPEPODA
Adults
Neoergasilus japonicus (Harada, 1930)	Gills, Pelvic fins	G/Au	Vh	403	31	20	13 ± 9.46	2.63 ± 7.07
			Vb	210	9	5	23.33 ± 25.47	1.16 ± 3.98
			Cg	314	20	24	16 ± 17.19	4 ± 6.35
Ergasilus sp.	Gills, Fins	G/Au	Vb	13	9	5	1.5 ±0.57	0.07 ± 0.33

Total values of the infracommunities and component community of metazoan parasites of the three cichlid fish species in the upper Grijalva River Basin_

Descriptor	C. grammodes	V. breidohri	V. hartwegi
Infracommunities
Mean species number	2.28 ± 1.21	1.81 ± 1.28	1.94 ± 1.44
Mean individual number	15.64 ± 15.37	12.34 ± 18.17	17.11 ± 47.06
Brillouin Diversity Index	0.03	0.02	0.02
Component community
Total species number	14	16	15
Total individual number	1307	1896	2984
Shannon-Wiener diversity Index	2.97	2.59	2.60
Shannon-Evenness Index	0.50	0.49	0.48
Berger-Parker Index	0.21	0.38	0.39
Dominant species	P. cf. minimum	C. cichlasomae	R. kritscheri

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/helm-2020-0041 | Journal eISSN: 1336-9083 | Journal ISSN: 0440-6605

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Language: English

Page range: 344 - 352

Submitted on: Jul 3, 2019

Accepted on: May 6, 2020

Published on: Nov 19, 2020

Published by: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Mathematical Institute

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Keywords:

freshwater parasites,

infection parameters

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Zoology,

Ecology,

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Medicine,

Clinical medicine,

Microbiology, virology and infection epidemiology

© 2020 A. Paredes-Trujillo, A. Martínez-Aquino, R. Rodiles-Hernández, D. González-Solís, published by Slovak Academy of Sciences, Mathematical Institute
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Metazoan parasites found in Chiapaheros grammodes (Cg, n = 84), Vieja breidohri (Vb, n = 153) and V_ hartwegi (Vh, n = 180) from the upper Grijalva River Basin_ Abbreviations: Au: Autogenic, Al: Allogenic, G: Generalist, P (%): Prevalence, S: Specialist, SD: Standard deviation_

Total values of the infracommunities and component community of metazoan parasites of the three cichlid fish species in the upper Grijalva River Basin_

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