• Corpus ID: 88166832

HELMINTH PARASITES OF SOME FRESHWATER FISHES

@inproceedings{Ahmed2007HELMINTHPO,
  title={HELMINTH PARASITES OF SOME FRESHWATER FISHES},
  author={Muhammad Shafiq Ahmed and Tahir Iqbal and Amjad Mahmood and Muhammad Gulzarin and Muhammad Abid},
  year={2007}
}

• Muhammad Shafiq Ahmed, T. Iqbal, +2 authors M. Abid
• Published 2007
• Biology

Forty-three freshwater fishes (Heteropneustus fossilis 11, Mystus vittatus 16 and Channa striatus 16) were collected from various freshwater ponds in the vicinity of Lahore and brought to the lab. All fishes were examined for the presence of internal helminth parasites in the digestive tract. The study revealed that all (100%) H. fossilis were infected with nematodes, Procamallanus heteropneustus, only 6 (37.5%) M. vittatus were found infected with nematodes, Rhabdochona magna and among C. striatus, 9 fish (56.25%) were infected with acanthocephalans, Pallisentis ophiocephali, 4 (25%) were infected with cestodes, Senga taunsaensis and 5 (31.25%) were infected with nematodes, R. magna. The mean intensity of infection was 14.36 in H. fossilis, 6.5 in M. vittatus and in C. striatus, 3.33 for acanthocephalans, 2.4 for nematodes and only 1.0 for cestodes per infected fish. The results indicate that the parasite intensity is quite high. It may be due to the presence of physical factors that favour the completion of life cycles of these parasites.