Helminth Parasites of Xenotaenia Resolanae (Osteichthyes: Cyprinodontiformes: Goodeidae) from the Cuzalapa Hydrological System, Jalisco, Mexico
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J. Parasitol., 95(5), 2009, pp. 1221–1223 F American Society of Parasitologists 2009 Helminth Parasites of Xenotaenia resolanae (Osteichthyes: Cyprinodontiformes: Goodeidae) From the Cuzalapa Hydrological System, Jalisco, Mexico Andre´s Martı´nez-Aquino, Rogelio Aguilar-Aguilar, Rodolfo Pe´rez-Rodrı´guez, and Gerardo Pe´rez-Ponce de Leo´n*, Departamento de Zoologı´a, Instituto de Biologı´a, Universidad Nacional Auto´noma de Me´xico, C.P. 04510, Apartado Postal 70-153, Me´xico, D.F., Mexico; *To whom correspondence should be addressed. e-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT: Six helminth species were recorded during the helmintholo- A total of 154 individual helminths was collected. Six helminth species gical examination of 35 specimens of the goodeid Xenotaenia resolanae were recovered, 4 digeneans and 2 nematodes (Table I). Three species were from Arroyo Durazno, Jalisco, Mexico, a tributary of the Cuzalapa River. recovered as larval stages: Clinostomum complanatum, Posthodiplostomum Helminth species identified included: 4 species of digeneans, i.e., minimum, and Spiroxys sp.; the remaining 3 helminth species were adults. Posthodiplostomum minimum (metacercariae), Clinostomum companatum The digenean Margotrema guillerminae was the most abundant species, (metacercariae), Dendrorchis sp. (adult), and Margotrema guillerminae accounting for about 85% of the collected worms, followed by R. (adult); and 2 species of nematodes, i.e., Spiroxys sp. (larvae) and ahuehuellensis, which accounted for 10.4%. The digenean Dendrorchis sp. Rhabdochona ahuehuellensis (adult). A very low number of individual was the least numerous, with a prevalence of 5.7% and a mean intensity of larvae were found. The observed species richness, individual parasite 1.5 worms per infected host. This digenean was not identified to species abundance, and diversity were low at both component community and level because it appears to represent an undescribed species. Additional infracommunity levels. The values of similarity between infracommunities samples are necessary to present a proper description. Infection site, were relatively high because of the predominance of the digenean M. number of infected fish, prevalence, abundance, and mean intensity of guillerminae, the species that reached the higher values of both prevalence each helminth species are shown in Table I. and abundance. High water flow of the collecting site is suggested as the Thirty of the 35 individual hosts were infected with at least 1 species of main factor determining the depauperate helminth assemblage in this fish helminth. Eight of these harbored 2 or more helminth species. The total species. number of individual helminths of all species per host varied from 1 to 24, with a mean number of 4.4 ± 5.4 individuals per host. The Olmstead- Xenotaenia resolanae Turner 1946, (Cyprinodontiformes: Goodeidae) Tukey test showed that only the intestinal digenean M. guillerminae was ranges in small rivers in Central Mexico’s Pacific Slope (Domı´nguez- frequent (prevalence .80%) and abundant (abundance .3.7 worms per Domı´nguez et al., 2005). It is not recorded as an endangered species analyzed host). The other intestinal species, i.e., R. ahuhuellensis, exhibited (Froese and Pauly, 2008), even though some authors have suggested that a relatively high prevalence, but it was not abundant, while the this fish species is very susceptible to environmental degradation (Lyons Dendrorchis sp. was actually a rare species. The remaining species and Navarro-Pe´rez, 1990) and should be regarded as vulnerable exhibited low prevalence and abundance values (Table I) and were also (Domı´nguez-Domı´nguez et al., 2005). The helminth fauna of this considered as rare. freshwater fish is poorly known. The only published record for X. The helminth infracommunities were species-poor. Most infracommu- resolanae includes the intestinal nematode Rhabdochona ahuehuellensis nities were composed of a single species, 7 of them had 2 helminth species, (Mejı´a-Madrid et al., 2005). However, this record was established for the and only 1 had the maximum of 4 species. The mean number of species per Rio Tecolote, Jalisco, a locality different from the one examined in the host was 1.1 ± 0.8. Five of the 7 infracommunities with 2 or more species present study. The aim of this research note is to present the were composed of the intestinal adult worms M. guillerminae and R. helminthological record of X. resolanae from Arroyo Durazno, a tributary ahuehuellensis. The Brillouin index for all infracommunities varied from 0 of the Cuzalapa River which drains into the Marabasco River Basin in the to 0.915, with a mean diversity value of 0.113 ± 0.218, while the Berger- state of Jalisco, Mexico; to describe the helminth infracommunity Parker dominance index values varied from 0.444 to 1, with a mean of structure; and to briefly discuss the possible causes that determine that 0.918 ± 0.16. For comparative purposes, we calculated the Brillouin index structure. for the 8 infracommunities with at least 2 species, which varied from 0.23 On August 2008, 35 specimens of X. resolanae were collected by to 0.915 with a mean diversity value of 0.425 ± 0.215; the Berger-Parker dominance index values varied from 0.444 to 0.900 with a mean of 0.693 ± electrofishing from Arroyo Durazno (19u30932.10N, 104u17945.60W), which is a small affluent of the Cuzalapa River, a tributary of the 0.167. Most of these assemblages were dominated by the digenean M. Marabasco River Basin in Jalisco State, southwestern Mexico. Hosts were guillerminae. The helminth infracommunities showed a relatively high level taken alive to the laboratory, pithed, and examined individually for of similarity. The corresponding Jaccard index varied from 0 to 1 (mean of intestinal helminths. Other organs (gills, liver, gall, swim and urinary 0.654 ± 0.353), and the Morisita-Horn index varied from 0 to 1 (mean of bladders, and spleen) were examined using a stereomicroscope in separate 0.765 ± 0.342). Petri dishes with 0.65% saline. Worms were fixed with 4% hot (steaming) Three of the 6 helminth species parasitizing X. resolanae were larval formalin. Platyhelminths were stained with Mayer’s paracarmine. stages. However, even though they have been previously reported Nematodes were cleared with glycerin for light microscopy and stored in parasitizing other goodeids in Central and Northern Mexico (Peresbar- 70% ethanol. Voucher specimens of all taxa were deposited in the bosa-Rojas et al., 1994; Martı´nez-Aquino et al., 2004; Mejı´a-Madrid et al., Coleccio´n Nacional de Helmintos (CNHE), Instituto de Biologı´a, 2005; Martı´nez-Aquino et al., 2007), their prevalence and abundance were Universidad Nacional Auto´noma de Me´xico, Mexico City. Use of very low. The remaining 3 taxa have also been reported for other goodeid prevalence (% infected), mean intensity (mean number of parasites per species and are members of the core endohelminth fauna of this fish family infected fish), and abundance (mean number of parasites of a single (Mejı´a-Madrid et al., 2005), particularly M. guillerminae and R. species per analyzed host) follows Bush et al. (1997). Helminth species ahuehuellensis, while congeneric species of Dendrorchis have been recorded were classified from an ecological point of view as dominant (high as parasites of characids in the Neotropical region (Volonterio and Ponce prevalence and abundance) and rare (low prevalence and abundance) after de Leo´n, 2005). The record of 3 adult endohelminth species in X. an Olmstead-Tukey corner test of association (Steel and Torrie, 1981). resolanae, along with the finding of Salsuginus (monogeneans) on the gills Infracommunities were described by the mean number of parasite species, (Martı´nez-Aquino, 2005), conform a particular parasite assemblage where the mean number of individual helminths, and the mean value of the adult native species are predominant. The helminth parasite species Brillouin diversity index that is commonly used in parasitological studies composition herein reported for X. resolanae is similar to that found in for fully censured communities. To demonstrate numerical dominance, the other goodeid fishes in central and northern Mexico (Peresbarbosa-Rojas Berger-Parker index was used (the closer the value to 1.00, the greater the et al., 1994; Pe´rez-Ponce de Leo´n et al., 2000; Martı´nez-Aquino et al., dominance). Similarity among infracommunities was estimated by using 2 2004; Sa´nchez-Nava et al., 2004; Mejı´a-Madrid et al., 2005; Salgado- indices: the Jaccard index and the Morisita-Horn index, for qualitative Maldonado, 2006; Martı´nez-Aquino et al., 2007; Romero-Tejeda et al., and quantitative similarity, respectively, as calculated in Magurran (1988). 2008). However, the prevalence and abundance of individual larval forms is very low. This can be explained as a result of the physical conditions of the locality where fishes were collected, particularly water flow. The brook DOI: 10.1645/GE-1925.1 where we conducted our sampling belongs to a small, exoreic river basin 1221 1222 THE JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY, VOL. 95, NO. 5, OCTOBER 2009 TABLE I. Helminth parasites of Xenotaenia resolanae (n 5 35) in Arroyo Durazno, Jalisco, Mexico. Number of Prevalence Mean intensity CNHE Helminth Infection site(s)* infected hosts (%) Abundance ± SD catalog no. Adult Digenea Margotrema guillerminae I 28 80 3.74 4.68 ± 5.6 6880 Dendrorchis sp. U 2 5.71 0.09 1.5 ± 0.71 6881 Larval Digenea Clinostomum complanatum Bc 1 2.86 0.03 1 6882 Posthodiplostomum minimum M 1 2.86 0.03 1 6883 Adult Nematoda Rhabdochona ahuehuellensis I 7 20 0.46 2.29 ± 1.49 6884 Larval Nematoda Spiroxys sp. M 1 2.86 0.06 2 6885 * I, intestine; U, urinary bladder; Bc, body cavity; M, mesentery. where water flows very rapidly and, apparently, there are no piscivorous BUSH, A. O., K. D. LAFFERTY,J.M.LOTZ, AND A. W. SHOSTAK. 1997. birds nesting in the area because no aquatic vegetation can be established Parasitology meets ecology on its own terms: Margolis et al.