The freshwaters of Iraq harbour a high diversity of endemic and phylogenetically unique
species. One of the most diversified fish groups in this region is cyprinoids, and although …

Background The host specificity of fish parasites is considered a useful parasite
characteristic with respect to understanding the biogeography of their fish hosts …

Background Freshwater fauna of the Middle East encompass elements shared with three
continents—Africa, Asia, and Europe—and the Middle East is, therefore, considered a …

Surveying literature concerning the occurrence of the monogeneans of the genus
Dactylogyrus Diesing, 1850 parasitizing fishes of Iraq till the end of 2018 indicated that there …

Eudiplozoon nipponicum (Goto, 1891) Khotenovsky, 1985 (Monogenea: Diplozoidae), is
known to parasitise Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus and species of Carassius. In this study, we …

Diseases caused by parasitic groups get less serious attention from the farmers because it is
chronic morbidity and mortality rates and small. However, if observed further, parasitic …

The morphological characterisation of Diplozoidae spp. is highly reliant on the details of the
sclerotised components of the hooks and clamps in the haptor. Only six species of …

A total of 472 fish specimens belonging to 24 species from the Euphrates River at Al-Musaib
city, mid Iraq were inspected for parasites during the period from July 2006 till the end of …

The distribution of the calculated epidemiological index shows that infection rates and
parasite loads by Monogenea are different over the course of the year. The species D …

Surveying 59 references concerning the occurrence of the monogeneans of the families
Ancylodiscoididae and Ancyrocephalidae parasitizing fishes of Iraq showed the occurrence …