A study of some helminth parasites of freshwater fishes in Ceylon

Fernando, C. H.; Furtado, J. I.

doi:10.1007/bf00260290

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“…comm.). New records also came from Asia; Israel, Iraq (Khalifa 1986), Malaysia (Fernando and Furtado 1964), Sri Lanka (Fernando and Furtado 1963) and Korea (Kim et al 1985). Allied species: B. aegypticus, known only from Egypt (Amin 1978), and B. kivuensis, which occurs in Central and South Africa (Baer and Fain 1960;Mashego 1982).…”

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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Occurrence, spread and control measures of Bothriocephalus acheilognathi (Bothriocephalidae: Cestoda)

2014

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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Occurrence, spread and control measures of Bothriocephalus acheilognathi (Bothriocephalidae: Cestoda)

2014

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“…The distribution and ecology of the parasites of freshwater fishes in their natural habitat in Malaysia have not been well studied. A few studies have reported mixed infections of parasites from a single fish host (Fernando & Furtado, 1963;Furtado & Tan, 1973;Chiang & Leong, 1979;Leong 1980;Leong & Mokhtar, 1981) or infection of a single species of parasite in a variety of fish hosts in the same habitat (Betterton, 1979).…”

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Seasonal occurrence of metazoan parasites of Puntius binotatus in an irrigation canal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

Leong

1986

Journal of Fish Biology

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Two hundred specimens of the cyprinid fish Puntius binotarus were collected over a period of 1 year, February 1976January 1977, from an irrigation canal in Palau Pinang, Malaysia. Six species of parasites were recovered: Dactylogyrus sp., Rhabdochona penengensis Furtado, 1965; Proreocephalus sp., Bothriocephalus acheilognathi Yamaguti, 1934, Pallisenfis gaboes MacCallum, 1918 and Lumproglena minufa Capart, 1943. The prevalence and mean density of two ectoparasites (Dactylogyrus sp. and L. minufa) and an endoparasite (B. acheilognathi] were examined in relation to season and host size. Fish were found to be free of these parasites in many months of the year. Prevalence and mean density of Dacfylogyrus sp. and L. minufa were found to be highest during the early part of wet season, whereas those of B. acheilognafhi were found to be highest in the later part of wet season. Prevalence of L. minufa increased with increasing size of fish, but mean density was least in the largest fish. Both prevalence and mean density of B. acheilognafhi were highest in smaller fish, whereas that of Dacfylogyrus sp. showed little variation in the three size-groups.

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“…Larvae of this genus were reported by Fernando and Furtado (1963) from three species of fishes, viz. Heteropneustes fossilis, Ompok bimaculatus and Wallago attu from Sri Lanka.…”

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Pathological effects of Eustrongylides sp. larvae (Dioctophymatidae) infection in freshwater fish, Glossogobius giuris (Ham.) with special reference to ovaries

Kaur

Shrivastav²,

Qureshi

2012

J Parasit Dis

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Present study was conducted to investigate the pathological effects of Dioctophymatid nematode (Eustrongylides sp.) in the freshwater fish, Glossogobius giuris. It is bright red colored nematode, measuring 30-55.26 mm in length and 0.525-0.630 mm in width, was found encapsulated or free in the body muscles, swim bladder, liver, intestine and ovaries of host fish. The overall prevalence of parasite was 38.47 ± 18.234 % and high prevalence of 68.75 and 50.0 % was observed in month of November, 2008 and March, 2008 respectively i.e. maximum infection of parasite was during pre-spawning and post-spawning period. Only the ovaries of host fish were found infected with encapsulated larvae. Ovaries showed 11.2 ± 0.088 % of prevalence and 0.259 ± 1.176 of relative intensity. The gonado-somatic index and fecundity of infected fishes were observed to decrease as compared to the uninfected ones. The histo-pathological damage caused by parasites in ovaries is characterized by damaged and disrupted germinal epithelium, damaged oocytes showing the sign of necrosis, liquification of yolk globules and reduction in the formation of yolk. The present observation attributes towards the reduction in fecundity and further decline in the population of the host fish.

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A study of some helminth parasites of freshwater fishes in Ceylon

Cited by 21 publications

References 15 publications

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Occurrence, spread and control measures of Bothriocephalus acheilognathi (Bothriocephalidae: Cestoda)

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Occurrence, spread and control measures of Bothriocephalus acheilognathi (Bothriocephalidae: Cestoda)

Seasonal occurrence of metazoan parasites of Puntius binotatus in an irrigation canal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

Pathological effects of Eustrongylides sp. larvae (Dioctophymatidae) infection in freshwater fish, Glossogobius giuris (Ham.) with special reference to ovaries

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