Parasites from the family Anisakidae are widely distributed in marine fish populations worldwide and mainly nematodes of the three genera Anisakis, Pseudoterranova and Contracaecum have attracted attention due to their pathogenicity in humans. Their life cycles include invertebrates and fish as intermediate or transport hosts and mammals or birds as final hosts. Human consumption of raw or unde...

Between January and August 2012, thirty specimens of Cynoscion guatucupa (Cuvier, 1830) caught off coast of the municipality of Itajaí, state of Santa Catarina, Brazil (26° 54' 28″ S and 48° 39' 43″ W) and commercialized in the state of Rio de Janeiro were investigated for the presence of zoonotic nematodes. In total 853 larvae of four nematode parasite species were found. There were three spec...

One specimen of the small spotted dogfish, Scyliorhinus canicula (L.) was caught with a liver having encapsulated cysts including Anisakis spp. larvae. Tumors occurred on surface this fish species, mostly. After dissection, total five nematod larvae were found to be encapsulated. In macroscopic examination, seen pale and its haemorhagic due The morphologically identified as importance such case...