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

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

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

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Published Online: Nov 19, 2020

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Received: Jul 03, 2019

Accepted: May 06, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/helm-2020-0041

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freshwater parasites, infection parameters

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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

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

Article Category: Research Article

Published Online: Nov 19, 2020

Page range: 344 - 352

Received: Jul 03, 2019

Accepted: May 06, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/helm-2020-0041

Keywords
freshwater parasites, infection parameters

© 2020 A. Paredes-Trujillo, A. Martínez-Aquino, R. Rodiles-Hernández, D. González-Solís, published by Sciendo

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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.

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

Article Category: Research Article

Published Online: Nov 19, 2020

Page range: 344 - 352

Received: Jul 03, 2019

Accepted: May 06, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/helm-2020-0041

Keywordsfreshwater parasites, infection parameters

© 2020 A. Paredes-Trujillo, A. Martínez-Aquino, R. Rodiles-Hernández, D. González-Solís, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Fig. 1

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.

Keywords
freshwater parasites, infection parameters