Tick fauna of wild animals received and attended at the Santarém Zoological Park, western Pará State, Brazil
2017
Kelly Karoline Gomes do Nascimento | Samara Maria Modesto Veríssimo | Vanessa de Almeida Raia | Ruth Cavalcante Silva Guimarães | Gisele Cristine Castro Seade | Adna Cristina Picanço Azevedo | Sidcley Pereira Matos | Jairo Moura de Oliveira | Isis Abel Bezerra | Thiago Fernandes Martins
ABSTRACT: Ticks are known worldwide for parasitizing a number of wild hosts. However, few studies have been conducted on ticks in zoos in Brazil. The objective of the present study was to collect, identify, and report the parasitic tick fauna found on wild Amazon animals received and attended at the Santarém Zoological Park from September 2004 to September 2013. In all, 56 animals, including 26 mammals and 30 reptiles, were sampled, from which 1172 ticks were collected and identified, comprising 862 adults, 284 nymphs, and 26 larvae. Nymphs of Amblyomma geayi on three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus), adults of Amblyomma longirostre on black dwarf porcupine (Coendou nycthemera), and nymphs of Amblyomma naponense on southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla) were identified for the first time in the country in the present study. Although, the North region is the largest among the five Brazilian regions, this is the first study conducted with ticks and animals attended in a zoo in the Brazilian Amazon.
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