Amazon fish parasites

By V. E. Thatcher. 2006

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Checklist of helminth parasites of freshwater fishes from Mexico (2006, background): “In terms of nematodes, Procamallanus (Spirocamallanus) rebecae is known from 4 families and 19 species of mostly of cichlids; Rhabdochona kidderi from 7 families, 18 species also mostly of cichlids and Rhabdochona lichthenfelsi from 16 species of mostly of goodeids.”
Checklist of Crustacea parasitizing fishes from Brazil (2013, background): “Dolops striata (Bouvier, 1899) Hoplias malabaricus, Leporinus fasciatus, Leporinus sp., Schizodon fasciatus, Synbranchus marmoratus; body surface; freshwater; Amazonas, Rio Grande do Sul (Carvalho 1939; Malta and Varella 1983; Lemos de Castro 1985; Thatcher 2006; Eiras et al. 2010).”
Checklist of Nematoda associated with the fishes of Brazil (2011, methodology): “Compilations of records have been published by Thatcher (1991, 2006), restricted to the Amazon River basin, and by Vicente et al. (1985), supplemented by Vicente & Pinto (1999).”
Checklist of Copepoda associated with fishes from Brazil (2007, background): “Ho (1998a,b) listed the Brazilian species of parasitic copepods, and recently, Thatcher (2006) given keys and an account of the biology and morphology of parasitic copepods from Amazonian river basin.”