Austrodiplostomum
Szidat & Nani, 1951 is a genus of parasitic digenetic trematodes widely distributed in the Neotropical region. Infects a wide variety of species, families and requests for freshwater fish. We identify samples of
Austrodiplostomum
sp, based on metacercariae isolates from eyes of tambaqui (
Colossoma macropomum
), a fish of high commercial importance in Brazil, and widely consumed by the population of the northern region. The sequences obtained clustered with
A. compactum
. This is the first report of the occurrence of diplostomids in farmed tambaqui in Amazonia.
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