Resumen

OLIVEIRA DA SILVA, LUCIANO; LUQUE, JOSE LUIS  y  RAMOS ALVES, DIMITRI. METAZOAN PARASITES OF THE ATLANTIC CUTLASSFISH, Trichiurus lepturus (OSTEICHTHYES: TRICHIURIDAE) FROM COASTAL ZONE OF THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL. Parasitol. día [online]. 2000, vol.24, n.3-4, pp. 97-101. ISSN 0716-0720.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-07202000000300005.

Between January and November of 1999, 55 specimens of Atlantic cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus Linnaeus, 1758 were captured of the coastal of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (21-23° S, 41-45° W), and necropsied to study of their metazoan parasites. Eleven species of metazoan parasites were collected in T. lepturus: 1 digenean, 1 monogenean, 2 cestodes, 1 acantocephalan, 5 nematodes, and 1 copepod. Trichiurus lepturus is a new host record for Callitetrarhynchus gracilis, Hysterothylacium sp., and Raphidascaris sp., Octoplectanocotyla trichiuri and Polymorphus sp. were recorded for the first time in Brazil.

Palabras llave : Metazoan parasites; Taxonomic records; Trichiurus lepturus; Trichiuridae; Brazil.