Parasitic fauna of the lake brown trout, Salmo trutta lacustris (Salmonidae), a little known endemic fish from Polish waters.

The lake brown trout is a salmonids fish regarded as a stationary form of the migratory trout. Within 2003-2004, 31 lake brown trout (Salmo trutta lacustris L.) from Lake Wdzydze (Poland), were examined for the presence of parasites following commonly used procedures. The parasites found represented Digenea: Diplostomum sp., Posthodiplostomum cuticola (Nordmann, 1832), Sphaerostomum globiporum (Rudolphi, 1802); Cestoda: Eubothrium crassum (Bloch, 1779), Triaenophorus nodulosus (Pallas, 1781); Acanthocephala: Acanthocephalus lucii (Müller, 1776); Copepoda: Ergasilus sieboldi Nordmann, 1832, and Hirudinea: Piscicola geometra (Linnaeus, 1761). The overall infection level amounted to 96.7%, 249.4, and 1-440. The copepod E. sieboldi was the most frequent parasite (93.5%, 257.4, 64-438). Lake brown trout from the Lake Wdzydze are very heavily infected by parasites dominated by the copepod E. sieboldi.