Abstract
The Trypanosoma genus comprises species that infect several vertebrate orders and are transmitted by various hematophagous invertebrates, usually hematophagous arthropods. Mammalian trypanosomes are usually transmitted by insects such as flies, hemotherters, tabanids, and fleas. A new species of trypanosome was described parasitizing tapirs (Tapirus Terrestris) in Atlantic Forest fragmen…