Infestation of two shrimp species of the genus Palaemon Fabricius, 1798 (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) by an isopod of the genus Probopyrus Giard & Bonnier, 1888 (Bopyridae) from the Brazilian southeast coast

Infestation of two shrimp species of the genus Palaemon Fabricius, 1798 (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) by an isopod of the genus Probopyrus Giard & Bonnier, 1888 (Bopyridae) from the Brazilian southeast coast

Abstract We determined the infestation rate of Probopyrus sp. in populations of Palaemon pandaliformis (Stimpson, 1871) and P. northropi (Rankin, 1898) in the Ubatumirim River, localized in a mangrove ecosystem on Ubatumirim Beach, northern coast of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Samplings were car...

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Main Authors: Bruno Gabriel Nunes Pralon, Mariana Antunes, Rafael Campanelli Mortari, Sérgio Luiz de Siqueira Bueno, Maria Lucia Negreiros-Fransozo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Carcinologia 2018-12-01
Series:Nauplius
Subjects:
ectoparasitism
prevalence
host
palaemonid
Brazil
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-64972018000100222&lng=en&tlng=en

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