Lernaeidae Cobbold, 1879

Luque, José L. & Tavares, Luiz E. R., 2007, Checklist of Copepoda associated with fishes from Brazil, Zootaxa 1579 (1), pp. 1-39 : 3

Family Lernaeidae Cobbold

Amazolernaea sannerae Thatcher & Williams

Cichla monoculus , Cichla temensis , body surface, freshwater, Amazon River basin ( Thatcher & Williams 1998).

Bedsylernaea collaris Thatcher & Williams

Hoplias malabaricus , body surface, freshwater, Pará ( Thatcher & Williams 1998).

Lamproglena sp.

Astronotus ocellatus , Oreochromis niloticus niloticus , body surface, freshwater, Rio de Janeiro (Alves et al. 2000; Azevedo et al. 2007a).

Lernaea devastatrix Boxshall, Montú & Scharzbold

Astyanax sp. , Cyprinus carpio carpio , Hoplias malabaricus , Rhamdia sp. , body surface, freshwater, Rio Grande do Sul (Boxshall et al. 1997).

Lernaea cyprinacea Linnaeus

Astyanax bimaculatus , Colossoma macropomum , Ctenopharyngodon idella , Cyprinus carpio carpio , Franciscodoras marmoratus , Hoplias malabaricus , Leporinus macrocephalus , Leporinus sp. , Oreochromis niloticus niloticus , Pachyurus squamipennis , Piaractus mesopotamicus , Pimelodus blochii , Prochilodus brevis , Rhamdia sapo , Schizodon intermedius , body surface, freshwater, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Sul, São Francisco River, São Paulo ( Fortes et al. 1998; Medeiros & Maltchik 1999; Martins et al. 2000; Silva- Souza et al. 2000; Tavares-Dias et al. 2001; Brasil-Sato 2003; Santos & Brasil-Sato 2004, 2006).

Minilernaea floricapitella Thatcher & Huergo

Astyanax sp. , Corydoras ehrhardti , body surface, freshwater, Santa Catarina, Paraná ( Thatcher & Huergo 2005).

Perulernaea gamitanae Thatcher & Paredes

Colossoma macropomum , gills, freshwater, Amazon River basin ( Thatcher & Paredes 1985a; Benetton & Malta 1999; Fischer et al. 2003).