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The Role of Local Fishes as an Intermediate or Paratenic hosts for some Parasites of Aquatic Birds in Basrah Province | ||
| Basrah Journal of Agricultural Sciences | ||
| Article 23, Volume 26, 2 (special Issue), 2013, Pages 269-274 PDF (0 K) | ||
| DOI: 10.33762/bagrs.2013.112077 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Abdul- Hussain H. Awad; Iltifat A. A. Al-Tameemi | ||
| Abstract | ||
| A total of 138 specimens of aquatic birds belong to five bird species; slender-billed gull Larus genei, little egret Egretta grazetta, little bittern Ardiola ralloides, cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo and pied kingfisher Ceryle rudis were collected from Al-Mashab marsh north of Basrah province during the period July 2011till June 2012.Contents of their proventriculouses were investigate for the presence of prey fishes, That these fishes may play a vital role of transferring parasitic helminths to the local aquatic birds. Many fishes species were isolated from the proventricolouses of the examined birds. The percentage of occurrences of fishes prey in each bird’s species and their relationship with the infection with parasite was estimated. Positive relationship between occurrence of in sailfin molly Poecilia latipinna which harbour Contracaecum sp. larva and infection slender-billed gull, little egret, little bittern and pied kingfisher with adult of Contracaecum spp. was noticed. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Aquatic birds; Parasite; Trematodes; Cestodes; Nematodes; fishes preys; Basrah | ||
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