Acta Scientiarum. Biological Sciences ISSN: 1679-9283
[email protected] Universidade Estadual de Maringá Brasil Reder de Carvalho, Adriano; Luque, José Luis Three new species of monogeneans parasitic on Atlantic cutlassfish Trichiurus lepturus (Perciformes: Trichiuridae) from Southeastern Brazil Acta Scientiarum. Biological Sciences, vol. 34, núm. 3, julio-septiembre, 2012, pp. 359-365 Universidade Estadual de Maringá .png, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=187123686015 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Acta Scientiarum http://www.uem.br/acta ISSN printed: 1679-9283 ISSN on-line: 1807-863X Doi: 10.4025/actascibiolsci.v34i3.10360 Three new species of monogeneans parasitic on Atlantic cutlassfish Trichiurus lepturus (Perciformes: Trichiuridae) from Southeastern Brazil Adriano Reder de Carvalho1,2 and José Luis Luque3* 1Laboratório de Biologia, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sudeste de Minas Gerais, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil. 2Laboratório de Ecologia e Taxonomia de Helmintos, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil. 3Departamento de Parasitologia Animal, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Cx. Postal 74508, 23851-970, Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. *Author for correspondence. E-mail:
[email protected] ABSTRACT. Three new species of monogeneans parasitic on the gills and esophagus of Trichiurus lepturus (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Southern Brazilian coast are described herein. Between July 2006 and June 2007, 120 specimens of T.