Tres especies de suctores (Protozoa: Ciliophora) ectosimbiontes del Acocil Cambarellus patzcuarensis

Abstract

THE SUCTORIANS PODOPHRYA SANDI, ACINETA TUBEROSA AND TOKOPHRYA QUADRIPARTITA WERE RECORDED ON THE EXOSKELETON OF DECAPOD CRUSTACEAN CAMBARELLUS PATZCUARENSIS VILLALOBOS, 1943. PODOHRYA SANDI WAS MOST PREVALENT ON CARAPASE AND UROPODS (EXOPODS); A TUBEROSA PREFERRED THE UROPODS (ENDOPOD AND EXOPOD), TELSON AND PEREIPOPS; T. QUARIPARTITA OCCURRED WITH HIGHEST FRECUENCY ON THE SCALES OF ANTENNAE AND THE PEREIOPODS. ONLY A. TUBEROSA SHOWED PREFERENCE FOR THE ENDOPOD OF THE UROPOD ACCORDING RESULTS PRESENTED.