CEPAVE   05420
CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS PARASITOLOGICOS Y DE VECTORES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
New locations and parasitological findings for the invasive shrimp Palaemon Southwestern Atlantic coasts
Autor/es:
MARTORELLI S; ALDA M D P; MARCOTEGUI P.; MONTES M.; LA SALA L.
Revista:
AQUATIC BIOLOGY
Editorial:
INTER-RESEARCH
Referencias:
Lugar: Oldendorf/Luhe; Año: 2012 vol. 15 p. 153 - 157
ISSN:
1864-7790
Resumen:
This paper reports new records that considerably expand the geographical range of the invasive shrimp Palaemon macrodactylus in Argentina to include new estuarine areas on the Argentine south Atlantic coast: Bahía Samborombón, Bahía Blanca estuary, and Río Negro estuary. The last two are the southernmost reports for this species. The epibiontic barnacle Balanus amphitrite and a microphallid metacercaria Odhneria sp. are reported for the first time in P. macrodactylus. Prevalence of White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) was 10% in Bahía Blanca estuary. Our results strongly suggest that WSSV is spreading in crustacean populations of the Argentinean sea and that P. macrodactylus plays a role in the ecology of parasite infections in this environment.