Candiru parasitizing stingrays
Posted: 04 Jul 2015, 01:58
Lasso, CA, C DoNascimiento, MA Morales-Betancourt & OM Lasso-Alcalá, 2015. Parasitism of freshwater stingrays (Potamotrygonidae) by hematophagous catfishes (Vandelliinae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 26: 83-86.
Abstract
During an ichthyological survey in the Orinoco River between 2013 and 2014, we found two individuals of the parasitic catfish Vandellia beccarii in the branchial chamber of two mature females of Potamotrygon orbignyi and one individual of an unnamed species of the also hematophagous vandelliine genus Paracanthopoma in an adult male of Potamotrygon scobina. This is the first record of parasitism of vandelliine catfishes in freshwater stingrays.
Abstract
During an ichthyological survey in the Orinoco River between 2013 and 2014, we found two individuals of the parasitic catfish Vandellia beccarii in the branchial chamber of two mature females of Potamotrygon orbignyi and one individual of an unnamed species of the also hematophagous vandelliine genus Paracanthopoma in an adult male of Potamotrygon scobina. This is the first record of parasitism of vandelliine catfishes in freshwater stingrays.