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Comparative Parasitology 68(2) 2001 - Peru State College

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206 COMPARATIVE PARASITOLOOY, <strong>68</strong>(2), JULY <strong>2001</strong><br />

Table 1. Fish species from the Lerma-Santiago river basin of west-central Mexico that were examined<br />

for helminths in 1997 and 1998.<br />

Fish species Common name<br />

Sample<br />

size (n)<br />

Cyprinidae<br />

*Algansea tincella (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1844) Spottail chub 17<br />

jCyprinux carpio Linnaeus, 1758 Common carp 45<br />

'•'"Notropis sallei (Giinther, 18<strong>68</strong>) Azteca chub 37<br />

*Yuriria alta (Jordan, 1880) Lerma chub 49<br />

Goodeidae<br />

''Girardinichthys multiradiatiis (Meek, 1904) Darkedged splitfin 503<br />

'•'•Goodea atripinnis Jordan, 1880 Blackfin goodea 143<br />

*Xcnotoca variants (Bean, 1887) Jeweled splitfin 56<br />

Poeciliidae<br />

Poecilia sphenops Valenciennes //; Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1846 Mexican molly 23<br />

*Poeciliopxis infans (Woolman, 1894) Lerma livebearer 16<br />

Poeciliopsis sp. 13<br />

Atherinidae<br />

*Atherinella crystallina (Jordan and Culver ;'/; Jordan, 1895) Blackfin silverside 48<br />

*Chirostoma humboldtianitm (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes,<br />

1835) Shortfin silverside 46<br />

*Chirostoma jordani: Woolman, 1894 Mesa silverside 64<br />

*Chirostoma labarcae Meek, 1902 Sharpnose silverside 3<br />

*Chirostoma riojai Solorzano and Lopez, 1966 Toluca silverside 78<br />

Cichlidae<br />

Cichlasoma beani (Jordan, 1889) Sinaloan cichlid 32<br />

Centrarchidae<br />

t Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 1819 Bluegill 2<br />

Gobiidac<br />

Awaous tajasica (Lichtenstein, 1822) River goby 2<br />

* Species endemic to the Lerma-Santiago river basin.<br />

t Species introduced to the Lerma-Santiago river basin.<br />

complanatum, Diplostomum sp., P. minimum, C.<br />

formosanus, L. intestinalis, C. cf. ralli, P. caballeroi,<br />

P. cf. urseus, P. cochlearii, V. campylane<br />

ristrota, V. mutabills, Eustrongylides sp.,<br />

Contracaecum sp., and P. brevis. Three species<br />

are recent, anthropogenically introduced colonizers:<br />

C. formosanus, P. tornentosa, and B. acheilognathi,<br />

which is the most widely distributed<br />

species in the basin. Twelve of the 33 fish species<br />

examined have not previously been surveyed<br />

for parasites, and present data expand the<br />

spectrum of fish hosts, to the effect that the list<br />

provides 75 new records for hosts and locations.<br />

Discussion<br />

Only 8 fish species have been examined in<br />

sufficient numbers to enable evaluation of helminth<br />

community composition and structure: Algansea<br />

lacustris, Chirostoma estor, C. attenu-<br />

Copyright © 2011, The Helminthological Society of Washington<br />

atutn, Goodea atripinnis, Alloophorus robustus,<br />

Allotoca diazi, Micropterus salmoides, and Cyprinus<br />

carpio. Patzcuaro Lake has been systematically<br />

sampled, while other localities have only<br />

been sampled occasionally and with few fish examined.<br />

From large areas of the basin no data<br />

on fish parasites exist at all. There is also limited<br />

information on the parasites of fish in rivers and<br />

other water bodies. Parasitological knowledge<br />

for the Lerma-Santiago river basin is fragmentary,<br />

as many studies did not record all the helminth<br />

species because they were prepared for<br />

taxonomic ends, such as the description of a single<br />

species. As a result, most of the research in<br />

the basin merely indicates where data are most<br />

needed.<br />

A notable aspect of the present data is a highly<br />

characteristic endemic helminth component in<br />

the Lerma-Santiago river basin. Of the 43 re-

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