Neotropical Monogenoidea. 63. Atopogyrodactylus praecipuus gen. et sp. n. (Gyrodactylidae), an oviparous gyrodactylid from the external surface of a bristlenose catfish Ancistrus sp. (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Rondônian Amazon, Brazil.

Atopogyrodactylus n. gen. (Gyrodactylidae) is proposed for Atopogyrodactylus praecipuus n.

Neotropical Monogenoidea 59. Polyonchoineans from Characidium spp. (Characiformes: Crenuchidae) from southern Brazil.

Gyrodactylidae and Dactylogyridae (Monogenoidea) are described or reported from three species of Characidium Reinhardt (Crenuchidae), small species of Characiformes, from streams located in southern Brazilian states. Gyrodactylus carolinae sp. n.

Two new species of protogyrodactylus (Monogenoidea: Dactylogyridae) from the gills of Gerres nigri (Teleostei: Gerreidae) from Senegal.

Protogyrodactylus ethiopicus sp. n. and P.

Specific primers for the detection of the black-yeast fungus associated with lethargic crab disease (LCD).

Lethargic crab disease (LCD) is an emerging infirmity that has been causing extensive mortalities in populations of the mangrove land crab Ucides cordatus (Ocypodidae) along the Atlantic coast of Brazil. Previous studies have indicated that LCD is associated with a dematiaceous fungus, Exophiala cancerae de Hoog et al. In the present study, we sequenced the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of the rDNA region of this black yeast species and developed species-specific PCR primers.

Lethargic crab disease: multidisciplinary evidence supports a mycotic etiology.

Although lethargic crab disease (LCD) is causing massive mortalities in populations of the mangrove crab Ucides cordatus of Northeastern Brazil, the identity of its etiological agent was hitherto unknown. In this study we provide robust evidence suggesting that LCD is caused by an anamorph Ascomycota (Fungi). We examined specimens of U.