Checklists of nematodes of freshwater and marine fishes of Basrah Province, Iraq

Abstract

Reviewing the literature on all the nematodes parasitizing 45 species of freshwater and marine fishes of Basrah province (eight elasmobranchs and 37 teleosts) indicated the presence of 48 nematode taxa. Thirty-five of such nematodes were recorded from marine localities against eight taxa from freshwater localities and two taxa from both marine and freshwater localities. These nematodes belong to two classes, three orders and eight families. All such nematodes belong to the class Secernentea except two taxa which belong to the class Adenophorea. Orders Ascaridida and Spirurida are represented with 22 and 24 taxa, respectively, while order Enoplida has only two taxa. The total number of nematode species recorded for each fish host species fluctuated from a minimum of one nematode species in 17 fish hosts to a maximum of eight nematode taxa in Cynoglossus arel only. Number of fish hosts reported for these nematodes fluctuated from one host in case of 31 taxa to a maximum of 20 hosts in case of Contracaecum sp. 1 larva.

First record of six shark species in the territorial marine waters of Iraq with a review of cartilaginous fishes of Iraq

“…valid Pastinacchus sephen (Forsskal, 1775) Hussain et al (1988), Hussain and Nama (1989), Mohamed et al (2001), Ali (2008) valid Recorded under the genus Dasyatus by Hussain and Nama (1989) and Mohamed et al (2001) and under the genus Hypolophus by Hussain et al (1988).…”

Checklists of Carp Parasites in Floating Cages of Iraq

“…The phylum Ciliophora is represented in cage fishes of Iraq with one species each of the genera Balantidium, Chilodonella, Ichthyophthirius and Tripartiella, three species of the genus Apiosoma and seven species of Trichodina in addition to one unidentified species of Trichodina as indicated in the following systematic scheme (GBIF, 2022) Apiosoma amoebae was reported from gills of C. carpio from fish cages in Al-Abbasiyah District, Al-Najaf Al-Ashraf Province (Al-Salami, 2019). This ciliophoran was recorded for the first time in Iraq from skin, buccal cavity and gills of C. idella and buccal cavity of H. molitrix from ponds of Al-Furat Fish Farm, Babylon Province (Ali et al, 1989). So far, six fish host species are known for this ciliophoran in Iraq.…”

Checklists of crustaceans of freshwater and marine fishes of Basrah Province, Iraq

“…With this article and the previous articles on helminths of fishes of Basrah province (Mhaisen et al, 2013a, b, c;Ali et al, 2014;Mhaisen et al, 2014), checklists of all the groups of parasitic metazoans infecting fishes of Basrah province were achieved. However, only one group remains untreated.…”

“…For these reasons, it was decided to review these data in accordance with Ahyong et al (2011) andWoRMS (2014) and also to revise fish names and provide an updated host-crustacean checklist in addition to the crustacean list. This review is a continuation of previous literature reviews on major groups of parasites of fishes of Basrah province (Mhaisen et al, 1993;2013a, b, c;Ali et al, 2014;Mhaisen et al, 2014). Finally, it was also planned to compare the richness of infected fishes of this province with crustaceans with those of the whole country of Iraq based on data extracted from the index-catalogue of parasites and disease agents of fishes of Iraq .…”