Among 600 bunnei fishes transferred from Qurna marshes to fish ponds at Basrah University/Marine Science Center, 211 were infected with saprolegniasis during the period January March, 2005 constituting a percentage of infection 35.1% which was diagnosed by its clinical features and direct examination 10% KOH solution culture. The cultutred fungus Saprolegnia parasitica.

Morphological asymmetry was analysed in two marine fish species Acanthopagrus arabicus and Planiliza klunzingeri, brackish freshwater habitats southern Iraq. For both species, specimens from the Shatt al-Arab River al-Basrah Canal exhibited greater values for snout length. In locations examined, levels of physical traits increased as grew. The high may be linked to heavy metal pollutants aquati...