Check List 13(6): 997-1001, doi: 10.15560/13.6.997
The invasive copepod Lernaea cyprinacea Linnaeus, 1758 (Copepoda, Cyclopoida, Lernaeidae): first record for Neuquén River,
Patagonia, Argentina
expand article infoMaría Agustina Waicheim‡, Guillermo Blasetti§, Pedro Cordero§, Carlos A. Rauque‡, Gustavo P. Viozzi‡
‡ INIBIOMA, Bariloche, Argentina§ AIC, Cipolletti, Argentina

Corresponding author: María Agustina Waicheim ( agustinaw@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Jesser Fidelis de Souza Filho
© 2017 María Agustina Waicheim, Guillermo Blasetti, Pedro Cordero, Carlos A. Rauque, Gustavo P. Viozzi.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation: Waicheim MA, Blasetti G, Cordero P, Rauque CA, Viozzi GP (2017) The invasive copepod Lernaea cyprinacea Linnaeus, 1758 (Copepoda, Cyclopoida, Lernaeidae): first record for Neuquén River,
Patagonia, Argentina. Check List 13(6): 997-1001. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.6.997
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Abstract

We report the first record of the copepod Lernaea cyprinacea (Linnaeus, 1758) parasitizing Percichthys trucha (Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1840) in the Neuquén River (Patagonia, Argentina). One specimen of P. trucha was found parasitized by two females of L. cyprinacea. Our record of L. cyprinacea in Neuquén River represents an increase of the known distribution range for this invasive species, which is apparently moving upstream in the Negro River Basin. This is the first record of L. cyprinacea in Neuquén Province.

Keywords
Introduced parasite; invasion; freshwater fishes; Los Barreales Reservoir; Percichthys trucha, range extension