Amazon Fish Parasites Volume 1 Second Edition (Aquatic Biodiversity in Latin America Biodiversidad Acuatica En America Latina)

For many years, students from numerous countries have complained about the lack of "tools" to identify aquatic invertebrates from Latin America. Keys found in accepted textbooks are mostly limited, superficial or too popular-science. On the other hand, more advanced keys in academic books on aquatic invertebrates fail to cover Neotropical representatives in due detail. The few that do, however, also show too many defects in scope and presentation to be considered up-to-date. An international team of editors combined their efforts with Pensoft Publishers to launch a new major series on the aquatic biodiversity of Latin America. About 15 monographs, written by scientists from various countries, will offer a new, unrivalled view of the marvellous aquatic world of South America! The series is addressed to zoologists, ecologists, hydrobiologists, biogeographers, conservationists and students interested in aquatic biodiversity. The series will be an imminent tool for any biological library. Volume 1 - This book covers the following Phyla and Classes: Protozoa (Myxozoa, Sporozoa), Plathelminthes (Trematoda, Monogenoidea, Cestoda), Nematoda, Acanthocephala, Crustacea (Copepoda, Branchiura, Isopoda), Hirudinea and Pentastomida that are known to parasitize Amazonian fishes. The text is in English and the identification keys to families and genera are in both English and Spanish. In addition to the keys and checklists, each chapter gives information on the morphology, life cycles, pathology, prevention, treatment, collection method, as well as general reference data on each taxon. An alphabetic table of host fishes with their respective parasites is provided. The book will prove to be useful for parasitologists, ichthyologists, aquaculturists, pisciulturists and all those interested in Neotropical fish parasites. Foreword ......Page 8 Preface to the second edition ......Page 10 Preface to the first edition ......Page 11 Acknowledgments ......Page 12 Table of Contents......Page 13 1 INTRODUCTION......Page 20 Cited and general references......Page 23 I. Definition and morphology......Page 24 II. Life-cycle and transmission......Page 25 III. Pathology......Page 26 V. Collection and study methods......Page 27 VI. Identification and keys......Page 28 Key to Neotropical fish ciliophorans......Page 29 VII. Checklist of Myxosporida from Neotropical freshwater fishes......Page 30 Checklist of Ciliophora from Neotropical freshwater fishes......Page 32 VIII. Plates of Protozoa and Ciliophora (Figs. 2-1 to 2-44)......Page 34 IX. Cited and general references......Page 41 I. Definition and morphology......Page 43 III. Pathology......Page 45 V. Collection and study methods......Page 46 Key to higher taxa of freshwater Amazonian Monogenoidea......Page 51 Key to genera of freshwater Amazonian Dactylogyrinea......Page 52 Clave para los géneros de Gyrodactylidae Neotropicales de agua dulce......Page 56 Clave para los Dactylogyrinea Neotropicales de agua dulce......Page 57 VII. Checklist of Monogenoidea from Amazonian freshwater fishes and diagnoses......Page 61 VIII. Plates of Monogenoidea (Figs. 3-1 to 3-64)......Page 93 IX. Cited and general references......Page 111 II. Life-cycle and transmission......Page 118 III. Pathology......Page 120 IV. Prevention and treatment......Page 121 V. Collection and study methods......Page 122 VI. Identification and keys......Page 123 Key to the Neotropical freshwater fish trematodes......Page 124 Clave para identificación de Tremátodos, parásitos de peces Neotropicales......Page 128 VII. Checklist of Trematoda (Digenea) from Neotropical freshwater fishes......Page 132 VIII. Plates of Trematoda (Digenea) (Figs. 4-1 to 4-99)......Page 155 IX. Cited and general references......Page 204 I. Definition and morphology......Page 207 III. Pathology......Page 208 VI. Identification and keys......Page 209 Key to Cestodaria and Cestoda of Neotropical freshwater fishes......Page 210 Clave para Cestodaria y Cestoda de peces Neotropicales de agua dulce......Page 212 VII. Checklist of Cotyloda (= Cestodaria) and Eucestoda (= Cestoda) from Neotropical freshwater fishes......Page 214 VIII. Plates of Cestoda and Cestodaria (Figs. 5-1 to 5-44)......Page 223 IX. Cited and general references......Page 232 II. Life-cycle and transmission......Page 235 III. Pathology......Page 236 V. Collection and study methods......Page 237 VI. Identification and keys......Page 238 Key to the Ascaridoidea of Amazonian freshwater fishes......Page 239 Key to the Camallanoidea (Camallanidae) of Amazonian freshwater fishes......Page 240 Key to the Dracunculoidea of Amazonian freshwater fishes......Page 241 Key to the Trichinelloidea (Capillariidae) of Amazonian freshwater fishes......Page 242 Clave para superfamílias de Nematoda de peces Amazonicos de agua dulce......Page 243 Clave para las Ascaridoidea de peces Amazonicos de agua dulce......Page 244 Clave para las Camallanoidea (Camallanidae) de peces Amazonicos de agua dulce......Page 245 Clave para las Dracunculoidea de peces Amazonicos de agua dulce......Page 246 Clave para las Gnathostomatoidea (Gnathostomatidae) de peces Amazonicos de agua dulce......Page 247 Clave para las Habronematoidea de peces Amazonicos de agua dulce......Page 248 VII. Checklist of Nematoda from Amazonian fishes......Page 249 VIII. Plates of Nematoda (Figs. 6-1 to 6-98)......Page 266 IX. Cited and general references......Page 294 I. Definition and morphology......Page 300 II. Life-cycle and transmission......Page 301 V. Collection and study methods......Page 302 Key to Acanthocephala of Neotropical freshwater fishes......Page 303 Clave de identificación para Acanthocephala de peces Neotropicales de agua dulce......Page 304 VII. Checklist of Acanthocephala from Neotropical freshwater fishes......Page 306 VIII. Plates of Acanthocephala (Figs. 7-1 to 7-32)......Page 312 IX. Cited and general references......Page 325 Ergasilidae......Page 327 Vaigamidae......Page 329 Therodamasidae......Page 330 II. Life-cycle and transmission......Page 331 V. Collection and study methods......Page 332 Key to Amazonian freshwater ergasiloid females......Page 334 Key to the South American genera and species of postmetamorphic female Lernaeidae......Page 335 Clave para hembras Ergasiloides dulceacuícolas Amazonicas......Page 336 Claves para los géneros y especies de Lernaeidae hembras post-metamórficas de América del Sur......Page 337 VII. Checklist of Copepoda from Amazonian freshwater fishes......Page 338 VIII. Plates of Copepoda (Figs. 8-1 to 8-62)......Page 347 IX. Cited and general references......Page 387 II. Life-cycle and transmission......Page 391 V. Collection and study methods......Page 392 Key to the Neotropical species of Argulus......Page 393 Key to the Neotropical species of Dolops......Page 394 Clave para las especies Neotropicales de Argulus......Page 395 Clave para las especies Neotropicales de Dolops......Page 396 VII. Checklist of Branchiura from Neotropical freshwater fishes......Page 398 VIII. Plates of Branchiura (Figs. 9-1 to 9-31)......Page 402 IX. Cited and general references......Page 414 II. Life-cycle and transmission......Page 417 III. Pathology......Page 418 VI. Identification and keys......Page 420 Key to the Genera of Cymothoidae from Neotropical freshwater fishes......Page 421 Clave para los géneros de Cymothoidae de peces Neotropicales de agua dulce......Page 422 VII. Checklist of Isopods from Neotropical freshwater fishes......Page 423 VIII. Plates of Isopoda (Figs. 10-1 to 10-62)......Page 428 IX. Cited and general references......Page 452 I. Definition and morphology......Page 455 V. Collection and study methods......Page 456 VII. Checklist of Hirudinea from Neotropical fishes......Page 457 IV. Prevention and treatment......Page 459 VII. Checklist for Pentastomida......Page 460 Other pathogens......Page 461 VIII. Plates of Hirudinea and miscellaneous pathological conditions (Figs. 11-1 to 11-7)......Page 462 IX. Cited and general references......Page 465 12 ADDENDUM: HOST–PARASITE TABLE......Page 466 13 SUBJECT INDEX......Page 498 "This book covers Phyla and Classes that are known to parasitize Amazonian fishes. The text is in English and the identification keys to families and genera are in both English and Spanish. In addition to the keys and checklists, each chapter gives information on the morphology, life cycles, pathology, prevention, treatment, collection method, as well as general reference data on each taxon. An alphabetic table of host fishes with their respective parasites is provided. The book will prove to be useful for parasitologists, ichthyologists, aquaculturists, pisciulturists and all those interested in Neotropical fish parasites."--BOOK JACKET