Parasites of Fishes of Kurdistan Region, Iraq: Checklists (original) (raw)
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Literature reviews of all references concerning the parasitic fauna of fishes in fish farms of Babylon province, middle of Iraq, showed that a total of 92 valid parasite species are so far known from the common carp (Cyprinus carpio), the grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella), and the silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) as well as from three freshwater fish species (Carassius auratus,Liza abu, andHeteropneustes fossilis) which were found in some fish farms of the same province. The parasitic fauna included one mastigophoran, three apicomplexans, 13 ciliophorans, five myxozoans, five trematodes, 45 monogeneans, five cestodes, three nematodes, two acanthocephalans, nine arthropods, and one mollusc. The common carp was found to harbour 81 species of parasites, the grass carp 30 species, the silver carp 28 species,L. abu13 species,C. auratusone species, andH. fossilisone species. A host-parasite list for each fish species was also provided.
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American Journal of Biology and Life Sciences, 2015
A total of 472 fish specimens belonging to 24 species from the Euphrates River at Al-Musaib city, mid Iraq were inspected for parasites during the period from July 2006 till the end of June 2007. Thirty-six monogenean species were detected. These included one species each of genera Ligophorus, Mastacembelocleidus, Octomacrum, Diplozoon, Eudiplozoon and Microcotyle, two species of both Dogielius and Thaparocleidus, three species of Paradiplozoon, five species of Gyrodactylus and 18 species of Dactylogyrus. In addition, 35 new host records in Iraq were reported for 20 species of these monogeneans. Number of fish hosts reported for these monogeneans fluctuated from one host in case of 18 monogenean species to a maximum of nine hosts in case of Dactylogyrus extensus. Among the inspected fishes, number of monogenean species fluctuated from a minimum of one monogenean species in four fish species to a maximum of 11 monogenean species in case of Carasobarbus luteus, while five fish species showed no any monogenean infections.
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The paper reviews all the reports concerning the parasitic fauna of the three species of carps cultured in Al-Furat fish farm, Babylon province, mid Iraq. These fishes included the common carp (Cyprinus carpio), the grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) and the silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) as well as the mullet (Liza abu) found in the same farm. The parasitic fauna included 60 valid parasite species: ten protozoans, three myxozoans, 29 monogeneans, one trematode, five cestodes, three nematodes, two acanthocephalans, six crustaceans and one mollusc. The common carp was found to harbour 56 species of parasites, the grass carp 25 species, the silver carp 25 species and the mullet six species. The parasitic species were revised and some were synonymised in accordance with latest internet taxonomical accounts. A host-parasite list was prepared for each host species which included all documented literature concerned with this farm.