Molecular identification of Austrodiplostomum sp., an eye parasite among farmed tambaqui in Amazonia.
Eduardo Freitas de FariasHallana Cristina Menezes da SilvaAna Paula Costa de CarvalhoRodrigo de Melo MartinsAndrea Belem-CostaWallice Paxiúba DuncanAna Lúcia Silva GomesDaniele Aparecida MatosoPublished in: Genetics and molecular biology (2023)
Austrodiplostomum Szidat & Nani, 1951 is a genus of parasitic digenetic trematodes widely distributed in the Neotropical region. Infects a wide variety of species, families and requests for freshwater fish. We identify samples of Austrodiplostomum sp, based on metacercariae isolates from eyes of tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum), a fish of high commercial importance in Brazil, and widely consumed by the population of the northern region. The sequences obtained clustered with A. compactum. This is the first report of the occurrence of diplostomids in farmed tambaqui in Amazonia.