Parasitic infestations are one of the most concerning problems limiting ornamental fish
farming. In addition to the direct economic losses due to the major mortalities, parasites may …

Purpose To describe a new genus and a new species of an ectoparasitic ergasilid
(Copepoda, Ergasilidae) parasite of the red-tailed lambari, Astyanax fasciatus, from …

Parasitic diseases have caused significant problems to global aquaculture production.
These studies will further our knowledge of this complex problem and help implement …

This paper describes the epibiosis of Ostrea cf. puelchana on Callinectes exasperatus
(Gerstaecker, 1856), both collected from the estuary of the Paraíba River, in the state of …

High infestations of epibiont ciliates on vertebrates or invertebrates are normally related to
aquaculture tanks or similar environments, and the importance of this relationship in natural …

Microsporidians, peritrich ciliates, udonellids, tantulocarids and parasitic isopods have been
found associated with parasitic crustaceans, ie Branchiura, parasitic Copepoda and …

This paper records the first occurrence of Epistylis sp. on the body surface of Argulus sp.
parasitizing Hoplias aimara from the upper Araguari River, in the eastern Amazon region, in …

A considerable part of the ciliates are free-living protists, in water and soil. Some groups
have parasitic, commensal or symbiont species (Verni and Gualtieri, 1997 VERNI, F. and …

Protozoan ciliate epibionts infestation on zooplankton in Cip Reservoir were studied
seasonally, between spring 2014-winter 2015 The ciliates peritrich epibiont Epistylis …

Epistyliasis has been characterized as an emergent disease which has a great impact on
fish farms, especially on Oreochromis niloticus production systems. Although …