Morphological and molecular characterization of myxosporidians in fish of the species Plagioscion squamosissimus (Heckel, 1840) from the municipality of Ferreira Gomes - AP, Eastern Amazon
ichthyoparasitology; myxozoa; Amazon.
The Amazon has one of the greatest biodiversity in the world, especially due to the complexity of ecosystems and biomes, and this diversity of ecosystems is one of the factors responsible for the richness of fauna and flora species. The Amazon ichthyofauna in general remains poorly documented, as well as ichthyoparasitology in this region. Thus, it can be seen that there are many species of fish in both freshwater and saltwater in Brazil, but few studies related to parasitic diversity, that is, there is a wide variety of species with little or no related research. Therefore, the present work aims to study the occurrence of parasites, especially myxozoans, and the sites of infection in fishes of the species Plagioscion squamosissimus (Heckel, 1840), popularly known as white hake, through morphological and molecular analyzes of fishes collected in the municipality of Ferreira Gomes, Amapá, Eastern Amazon.