Resumen

RAMOS ALVES, DIMITRI  y  LUQUE, JOSÉ LUIS. METAZOAN PARASITES OF Micropogonias furnieri (OSTEICHTHYES: SCIAENIDAE) FROM THE COASTAL ZONE FROM THE STATE OF RIO JANEIRO, BRAZIL. Parasitol. día [online]. 2000, vol.24, n.1-2, pp. 40-45. ISSN 0716-0720.  doi: 10.4067/S0716-07202000000100006.

Between September of 1997 and August of 1998, 40 specimens of Micropogonias furnieri were captured of the coastal of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (aprox. 21-23° S, 41-45° W), and necropsied to study of their metazoan parasites. Seventeen species of metazoan parasites were identified, 1 aspidobothrid, 3 digeneans, 3 monogeneans, 1 cestode, 2 acantocephalans, 2 nematodes, 1 hirudinean, 3 copepods and 1 isopod. Micropogonias furnieri is a new host record for Brachadena pyriformis Linton, 1910; Caligus haemulonis Krøyer, 1863; and Clavellotis dilatata (Krøyer, 1863). Neobrachiella chevreuxii (van Beneden, 1891) and Dichelyne elongatus (Tornquist, 1931) were recorded by the first time from Brazil.

Palabras clave : Metazoan parasites; Taxonomic records; Micropogonias furnieri; Sciaenidae; Brazil.