Marine fish parasitology of Iraq: A review and checklists
Mhaisen, F.T.; Ali, A.H.; Khamees, N.R. (2018). Marine fish parasitology of Iraq: A review and checklists. Biological and Applied Environmental Research 2(2): 231-297
In: Biological and Applied Environmental Research. BIOVAT: Göteborg. ISSN 2002-6153, more
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Checklists; Parasites; Marine fishes; Basrah; Iraq |
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- Mhaisen, F.T.
- Ali, A.H.
- Khamees, N.R.
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Literature reviews of available reports concerning the parasitic fauna of marine fishes of Iraq till the end of 2017 showed that a total of 253 parasite species are so far known from 86 fish species (13 elasmobranchians and 73 actinopterygians) investigated for parasitic infections. The parasitic fauna included one myzozoan, three ciliophorans, three myxozoans, 50 trematodes, 41 monogeneans, 21 cestodes, 47 nematodes, 11 acanthocephalans, one mollusc larva and 75 crustaceans. Among the inspected fishes, the mugilid fish Planiliza subviridis was infected with the highest number of parasite species (47 parasite species), followed by the sparid fish Acanthopagrus arabicus (28 species) and the clupeid fish Tenualosa ilisha (17 species), while 23 fish species were infected with only one parasite species each. The praniza larval stage of the isopode Gnathia was the commonest parasite species as it was recorded on 18 fish species, followed by the cestode Callitetrarhynchus gracilis which was reported from seven fish host species, while the majority of the remaining parasite species infected only one host species each. |
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