Branchioblastoma in Sardinella longiceps is described in present study. Large tumour masses were found under the operculum. Tumour is characterized by the multilobed and pale to red in color and located in the brachial chamber of the fish. It varied in consistency from very soft and triable to hard and also vary in size from 17 mm to 33 mm in diameter and 18 to 44 mm in length. Prevalence study...

Capoeta damascina was earlier considered by many authors as one of the most common freshwater fish species found throughout the Levant, Mesopotamia, Turkey, and Iran. However, owing to a high variation in morphological characters among and within its various populations, 17 nominal species were described, several of which were regarded as valid by subsequent revising authors. Capoeta damascina ...

background: evaluation of herbicide pollution in aquatic environments needs the great concern and the most important echo-pollutant effects of herbicides are related to their effects on non target aquatic organisms. native fish can serve as a proper bio-indicator for evaluation  of pollution on aquatic ecosystems. objectives: to find environmentally friendly herbicides, in this study the acute ...

Recent collections of isopods in Alboran Island and Algeria included several specimens of the species Stenosoma stephensenisp. n. This is the fourteenth species described in the genus Stenosoma Leach, 1814. Examination of two specimens collected during the Danish oceanographic cruises of the Thor (1908-10) close to the Galite Islands, and identified as Stenosoma acuminatum Leach, 1814, revealed...