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DIAS,KARINA G.A; ALVES,CARLOS A.; SILVA,REINALDO J. DA; ABDALLAH,VANESSA D.; AZEVEDO,RODNEY K. DE. |
ABSTRACT The parasites are indicative of several biological aspects of their hosts, including their diet, migration, recruitment and phylogeny, but they can also be direct indicators of the environmental quality. Hoplosternum littorale is a fish that has a high commercial value in some South American countries. The fishes were collected from January to July 2012, in two locations of the Peixe River in the municipality of Anhembi, State of São Paulo, Brazil, which had different environmental and limnological characteristics (river mouth and Lagoa Cabeça de Boi). An amount of 30 fish specimens were captured in each location for the analysis of their parasitic fauna. Nine species of metazoan parasites were collected. Both Brillouin`s diversity index and... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Bioindicators; Callichthyidae; Parasites; Peixe River; São Paulo. |
Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652017000502317 |
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