ISSN Versión impresa 2218-6425 ISSN Versión Electrónica 1995-1043 Neotropical Helminthology, 2017, 11(2), jul-dic: 413-511 Neotropical Helminthology REVIEW ARTICLE/ ARTÍCULO DE REVISIÓN SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES OF MYXOZOA GRASSÉ, 1970 (CNIDARIA: MYXOSPOREA) IN THE AMERICAS SINOPSES DAS ESPÉCIES DE MYXOZOA GRASSÉ, 1970 (CNIDARIA: MYXOSPOREA) NAS AMÉRICAS SINOPSIS DE LAS ESPECIES DE MYXOZOA GRASSÉ, 1970 (CNIDARIA: MYXOSPOREA) EN LAS AMÉRICAS Letícia Poblete Vidal¹; José Iannacone2,3; Christopher M. Whipps4 & José Luis Luque1 1Departamento de Parasitologia Animal e Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Veterinárias, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro – UFRRJ, Brazil 2 Laboratorio de Parasitologia. Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas. Universidad Ricardo Palma (URP). Santiago de Surco, Lima, Perú. 3 Laboratorio de Ecología y Biodiversidad Animal (LEBA). Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemática (FCNNM). Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal (UNFV). El Agustino, Lima, Perú. 4State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Environmental and Forest Biology – SUNY- ESF, USA. Corresponding author: José Luis Luque, Departamento de Parasitologia Animal, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, CP 74.540, Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro, 23851-970, Brazil. E-mail:
[email protected] ABSTRACT A synopsis of records of the valid species of myxozoans (Myxozoa: Myxosporea) described in the Americas is provided based on a comprehensive survey of the literature since 1893, when the first myxozoan species was reported, until December 2016. This is a synopsis of 495 species, distributed in 36 genera, 15 families, and associated with 286 species of hosts. In terms of numbers of host-parasite associations, fish were the most representative group (97% of the total number of host-parasite associations), whereas records from birds represented 0.2%, crustaceans 0.2%, helminths 0.2%, reptiles 0.8% and 1.6% from amphibians.