“…The family Calyptosporidae is represented by species with a heteroxenous life cycle, where by the oocysts are transmitted from the intermediate host, an invertebrate, to the definitive host, the fish (Overstreet et al, 1984;Whipps et al, 2012). The genus Calyptospora Overstreet, Hawkins and Fournie, 1984 is known to cause mainly liver pathologies, but it can also be found in the pancreas, gallbladder, mesentery, gonads and other tissues (Overstreet & Hawkins, 2017;Ramos et al, 2018;Negrão et al, 2019).…”