Fauna parasitária de Amazophrynella manaos (Anura: Bufonidae) coletados em três áreas de Manaus

Abstract

The study of the parasitic fauna of the vertebrates is important for the ecological knowledge of the area, and as the anthropic changes affect it, amphibians are sensitive animals to these changes, soon their parasites are also. But many amphibians in Brazil have not even been thoroughly described yet. As is the case of the species Amazophrinella manaos, which occurs in the city of Manaus. The specimens were collected at three points within the city, the PAREST Sumaúma, the university campus of Ufam and the Museum of the Amazon, totaling 186 specimens collected. Of these, only 34 were parasitized by at least one parasite. A total of seventy-two parasites were found: 56 nematodes between larvae and cysts, and 16 acanthocephalas between the larval stages of cystokanus and acanthus. Adult parasites were found, but because there were no males in the samples, it was not possible to identify them, which were then standardized to phylum.