Parasites of fishes of Kurdistan region, Iraq: Checklists
Mhaisen, F.T.; Abdullah, S.M.A. (2017). Parasites of fishes of Kurdistan region, Iraq: Checklists. Biological and Applied Environmental Research 1(2): 131-218
In: Biological and Applied Environmental Research. BIOVAT: Göteborg. ISSN 2002-6153, more
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Checklists; Kurdistan region, Iraq |
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- Mhaisen, F.T.
- Abdullah, S.M.A.
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Literature review of all references concerning the parasitic fauna of fishes in Kurdistan region, northern Iraq till the end of 2016 showed that a total of 188 valid parasite species are so far known from 33 valid freshwater fish species (27 cyprinid and six non cyprind species) in different aquatic habitats of Kurdistan region. The parasitic fauna included one euglenozoan, one microsporidian, 21 ciliophorans, 19 myxozoans, 11 trematodes, 82 monogeneans, 19 cestodes, 16 nematodes, five acanthocephalans, two annelids, one molluscan and 10 arthropods. Among these parasites, the nematode larvae of the genus Contracaecum was the most common parasite as it infected 21 host species, followed by the trematode metacercaria Diplostomum spathaceum (16 host species) and the ciliophoran Ichthyophthirius multifiliis (15 host species) while 103 parasite species infected only a single fish host species each. Among the hosts, number of parasite species fluctuated from a maximum of 57 species in Cyprinus carpio, followed by Cyprinion macrostomum (35 parasite species) and Silurus triosteguus (29 parasite species) to a minimum of one species in Barbus rajanorum, Ctenopharyngodon idella, Glyptothorax cavia and Luciobarbus subquincunciatus. The article includes a host-parasite list for each fish species. |
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