The Occurrence of Parasitic Helminths of Capoeta umbla in Relation to Seasons, Host Size, Age and Gender of the Host in Murat River, Turkey

Acanthocephala From Seven Species of Freshwater Fish (Cyprinidae and Cyprinodontidae) From Turkey with the Description of a New Species ofParalongicollum(Pomphorhynchidae)

“…This study confirms the host specificity of N. zabensis as being to the genus Capoeta and extends it to include the species C. erhani and C. angorae, both of which have habitat and dietary requirements congruent within other members of the genus. The prevalence and intensity of infection of C. erhani with N. zabensis were high (76.9%, 1-180) and are similar to those reported for Capoeta trutta (Heckel, 1843) and Capoeta umbla (Heckel, 1843), although not as high as those reported for Capoeta damascina (Valenciennes, 1842) from Iraq and Capoeta barroisi Lortet, 1849 from the Murat River in Turkey (Amin et al, 2003b;Oguz et al, 2012;Koyun, 2012), suggesting that N. zabensis is well established in the Kahramanmaras Region. By contrast, the prevalence and intensity of infection (3.3%, 1-46) found in C. angorae were the lowest, suggesting that N. zabensis is rare in this host (Amin et al, 2003a, b;Oguz et al, 2012;Koyun, 2012).…”

“…Neoechinorhynchus zabensis was originally described from species of Capoeta in tributaries of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq, and the geographic distribution has subsequently been extended to tributaries in Iran and Turkey (Amin et al, 2003b;Oguz et al, 2012;Koyun, 2012). Oguz et al (2012) concluded that N. zabensis was restricted to the Tigris/Euphrates river system.…”

“…Neoechinorhynchus rutili (Müller, 1780) has been widely reported, and Neoechinorhynchus zabensis Amin, Abdullah, and Mhaisen, 2003 has been reported more recently from Turkey (Aydogdu et al, 1997(Aydogdu et al, , 2000Saglam and Sarieyyupoglu, 2002;Amin et al, 2003b;Uzunay and Soylu, 2006;Ozer, 2007;Dörücü et al, 2008;Ozturk and Ozer, 2008;Koyun, 2012;Oguz et al, 2012). A tenth species, Triaspiron aphanii Smales, Aydogdu, and Emre, 2012 (Quadrigyridae), is discussed elsewhere (Smales et al, 2012).…”

Seasonal Occurrence and Infectivity of Nematode Parasites in the Indian Bull Frog, Hoplobatrachus tigerinus Daudin, 1803 (Anura: Dicroglossidae) of YSR (Kadapa), Andhra Pradesh, India

“…However, r=0.062 shows there is no impact of host length on parasitization of O. filiformis (Table 4). The present study supports the view of Aho (1990), Sluys et al (1994), Koyum (2012) and Hemalatha et al (2015) who opined that parasitization depends on host-size to some extent. On the other hand, Lees (1962), Cheng (1964), Kennedy and Lie (1974), Al-Barware et al (1980), Begum (2006a, 2006b) and Begum and Banu (2012) reported that the parasitization of male hosts is relatively higher than the female hosts.…”

Community Structure Analysis Metazoan Parasites of Channa punctatus (Bloch, 1800) from Meghadrigedda Reservoir of Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh, India

“…Many scientists were of the opinion that the relationship between host length and parasite abundance might be due to the occurrence and relationship between parasite diversity and body length of sample ( Jha and Sinha, 1990;Saad-Fares and Comb, 1992;Zelmer and Arai, 1998;Poulin, 2000;Lizama et al, 2005Lizama et al, , 2006Singhal et al, 2009;Koyun, 2012;Kaur et al, 2013). According to Pearson's correlation coefficient, there exists a very insignificant positive correlation (r= 0.012) between host length and parasitic abundance of C. punctatus (Table 7).…”