“…Many fungi such as Aspergillus spp. are associated with diseased conditions and mortalities in different fish species in various regions including ornamental fish in Egypt and Pakistan, Rainbow trout in Iran, Clarias batrachu in Bhopal, fish hatchery farms in Nigeria, many freshwater fishes in Bihar, African catfish in Ethiopia, farmed fishes in the Province in Iraq, Clarius batrachus in India and many freshwater Fishes in India as well as African catfish in Egypt (Abolude, Opabunmi & Davies, 2013; Chauhan, 2013; Iqbal & Sajjad, 2013; Kumari & Kumar, 2015; Kumari & Sivakami, 2018; Melaku;, Lakew, Alemayehu, Wubie & Chane, 2017; Parveen & Bari, 2018; Refai, Laila, Mohamed & Shimaa, 2010; Shahbazian, Ebrahimzadeh, Soltani, Khosravi & Sharifpour, 2010; Touhali, 2018; Younis et al, 2020). Aspergillosis is a causative agent for early ulcerative syndrome (Podeti & Benarjee, 2015) besides systemic infections and severe epidermal lesions (Sarjito et al, 2019).…”