The present studywas carried out to survey ectoparasites fauna of gold fish (Carassius auratus) in Mazandaran province (Iran) from April 2009 to March 2010. A total of 200 samples were obtained from 10 ornamental fish supply centers and transferred alive to the laboratory. In this study, the following ectoparasites were isolated: Ichthyophthirius multifillis , Trichodina spp., Gyrodactyl...

There is an extensive lack of information on the parasitic fauna accompanying cartilaginous fish in Peru. The objective this work was to identify community parasite metazoans cockfish Callorhinchus callorynchus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Chimaeriformes: Callorhinchidae) from artisanal fishing San Andrés, Pisco, Ica, Thirty-one specimens C. were collected between June 2018 and October 2019. Following nec...

Gobies and their ectoparasitic monogenean flatworms are promising models for species diversification because of richness. Recent decades have seen the discovery several new Gyrodactylus (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae) on European gobies, mostly in sand goby lineage especially eastern Mediterranean. However, fauna other gobies is much less understood. Therefore, we inspected five gobiid (34 specimen...

The Pacific thread herring, Opisthonema libertate, is a fishery resource in the eastern tropical Pacific, yet its population dynamics are poorly understood. aims of this work were to document metazoan parasite species O. libertate from Gulf California Mexico, determine latitudinal changes their infection levels, and assess potential as biological tags. Six parasitic identified: Myosaccium ecaud...

The affiliation for the sixth author is not indicated. Maarten P. M. Vanhove is affiliated with: 1 Biology Department, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium, 2 Laboratory of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Genomics, Department of Biology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 5 Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Anavyssos...

We developed a rapid effective method for accurate estimation of intensity for the monogenean Lepidotrema bidyana, a gill parasite of silver perch Bidyanus bidyanus. This parasite requires monitoring because high-intensity infections reduce host growth and can lead to secondary bacterial and fungal infections. The most accurate method for counting L. bidyana was visual examination of fresh gill...