A checklist of metazoan parasites recorded in freshwater fish from Turkey

Abstract

A checklist of the metazoon parasites of freshwater fish in Turkey has been compiled from parasitological studies done in Turkey between 1964 and 2003. The parasite species list is arranged by phylum and class, providing parasite species name and author, host fish, location of host fish capture and author and date of published record. The host list consists of all parasite species listed by host species. One hundred and thirteen parasite species are listed from 41 host species belonging to 26 genera.

The occurence and dynamics of Ligula intestinalis in its cyprinid fish host, tench, Tinca tinca in Mogan Lake (Ankara, Turkey)

“…Ligula intestinalis is known to infest many freshwater fishes including tench in Turkey (see the checklist by Oktener, 2003) although it is not a common host for Ligula in European countries. Only Yavuzcan et al (2003) investigated the parasitization parameters of Ligula infection such as mean intensity, prevalence and parasitic index in tench.…”

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“…The Turkish Dactylogyrus fauna appears to be considerable poorer in the number of species compared with that of the continental European fauna. Oktener (2003) listed 17 Dactylogyrus species and to our knowledge up to 31 Dactylogyrus species have been recorded (Oktener, 2003;Karatoy and Soylu 2006;Uzunay and Soylu, 2006;Soylu and Emre, 2007;Kir and Tekin-Ozan, 2007;Kayis et al, I. 2009;Turgut et al, 2011).…”

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“…Many studies reported on parasites collected from marine fishes in Turkey (Öktener, 2003;Kayis et al, 2009). Nerocila bivittata, and N. orbignyi was reported for species caught in the Turkish Sea, (Horton and Okamura, 2001;Öktener and Trilles, 2004;Alas et al, 2008) but there is no record of S. solea as a host fish of N. orbignyi.…”