New records of endoparasitic helminths in alien invasive fishes from the Carpathian region

Abstract

Six non-native invasive fish species from the Slovak part of the Tisa River basin, namely Carassius gibelio, Pseudorasbora parva, Ameiurus melas, A. nebulosus, Lepomis gibbosus, Perccottus glenii, and three gobiid species from the Danube River, namely Neogobius melanostomus, N. fluviatilis and N. kessleri, were investigated for endohelminth parasites. The expanding Asian cestode Nippotaenia mogurndae (syn. Amurotaenia perccotti) (Nippotaeniidea) has been introduced to Europe with its invasive host P. glenii. Pumpkinseed, Lepomis gibbosus, is a new definitive host of Proteocephalus percae and it is reported as the second intermediate host of the bothriocephalidean cestode Triaenophorus nodulosus in Slovakia.

Parasitic infections of two invasive fish species, the Caucasian dwarf goby and the Amur sleeper, in Hungary

“…It was common in some collecting places, achieving 60% infection rate, while in other collecting places it was not recorded at all. This parasite has been thoroughly studied in Slovakia (Košuthová et al, 2004(Košuthová et al, , 2008(Košuthová et al, , 2009Hanzelová et al, 2007), Poland (Mierzejewska et al, 2010(Mierzejewska et al, , 2012, Russia (Reshetnikov et al, 2011a,b) and the Ukraine (Kvach et al, 2013). The species develops via cyclops intermediate hosts, which makes possible its invasion also into Europe.…”

“…Endoparasitic helminths of the Amur sleeper in the Carpathian basin were studied by Košuthová et al (2004Košuthová et al ( , 2008Košuthová et al ( , 2009. Further data on the parasite infections of this fish species have been presented in the works of Mierzejewska et al (2010Mierzejewska et al ( , 2012 from Poland and of Kvach et al (2013Kvach et al ( , 2014 and Zaichenko (2015) from the Ukraine.…”

Introduction of Gyrodactylus perccotti (Monogenea) into Europe on its invasive fish host, Amur sleeper (Perccottus glenii, Dybowski 1877)

“…Parasite fauna of the Amur sleeper was extensively investigated in many geographic regions of the Danube River basin, including the Danube River (Serbia) (Nikolic et al, 2007), Tisza River (Slovakia) (Košuthová et al, 2009) and Latorica River (Slovakia) (Ondračková, unpublished data), with no monogenean parasites found to date. The present study represents the first occurrence of G. perccotti, a parasite introduced with its fish host, in Europe.…”

“…To date, occurrence of two parasite species of Amur sleeper was reported in Europe: cestode parasite Nippotaenia (syn. Amurotaenia) mogurndae found in the Latorica River (Slovakia) (Košuthová et al, 2009) and Wloclawski Reservoir (Poland) (Mierzejewska et al, 2009) and nematode parasite Eustrongylides sp., which larval stages infect percid and gobiid fish as intermediate or paratenic hosts, found in Danube River (Serbia) (Nikolic et al, 2007;Moravec, 2008). Whilst N. mogurndae is a parasite native to the Far-East region and was introduced with its fish to Europe (Košuthová et al, 2004), larvae of eustrongylid nematodes are common in various taxa of poikilothermic animals inhabiting European waters (Moravec, 1994) and colonized the Amur sleeper as a new host species.…”

Non-indigenous benthic fishes as new hosts forBucephalus polymorphusBaer, 1827 (Digenea: Bucephalidae) in the Vistula River basin, Poland

“…In the Turkish Lake Egirdir, the metacercariae occurred in muscles of the Caucasus goby Knipowitschia caucasica (Berg, 1916) (Diler and Yıldırım, 2003). The Ponto-Caspian gobiids are invasive species in different regions of Europe and North America (Copp et al, 2005;Košuthová et al, 2009). Mühlegger et al (2009Mühlegger et al ( , 2010 detected the metacercariae of B. polymorphus in fins of the invasive round goby in the Middle Danube River in Austria.…”