La “lisa” Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758 (Mugilidae) es un pez bentopelágico carnívoro de la costa central del Perú. Se investigó algunos componentes comunitarios parasitofauna 74 M. adquiridos Terminal Pesquero Chorrillos, Lima, Perú, entre agosto y diciembre 2008. Fueron necropsiados los peces con el objetivo caracterizar comunidad parasitaria evaluar influencia tamaño sexo hospedero, sobre su...

The prevalence of fish parasites in Bagrus bayad and Protopterus annectens from Upper River Benue Mutum Biu, Taraba State, Nigeria was carried out using standard parasitological method. objectives this study were to investigate the parasite species spectrum, each species, overall prevalence, infection relation size sexes induced by on/in their body parts, with view providing relevant informatio...

Information concerning parasites of the bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in North America is relatively sparse. Since the bald eagle in parts of the United States is an endangered species, collection of eagles for parasito!ogical study is difficult. There have been several singular reports of parasites found in oron bald eagles in the literature. However, Kocan and Locke (1974, J. Wild!. I...

Based on light and scanning electron microscopical studies, eight species (five adult and three larval) of nematodes belonging to the Ascaridida, Oxyurida and Enoplida were collected from fishes of the Okavango River, Botswana, namely Falcaustra similis Moravec et Van As, 2004, Atractidae gen. sp. (only female) (both Cosmocercoidea), Cucullanus sp. (only female) (Seuratoidea), Cithariniella lon...

BACKGROUND In Anzali Lagoon, there are some endemic and exotic fishes. The present study was conducted to compare the parasitic fauna of Blicca bjeorkna, as an endemic fish and Hemiculter leucisculus, as an introduced fish to the lagoon. METHODS A parasitological investigation was done on 78 specimens of B. bjoerkna and 114 of H. leucisculus. The fishes were collected from August 2009 to Apri...