Title of article :
PREVALENCE AND HISTOPATHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF PARASITIC COPEPOD LERNAEA CYPRINACEA IN ESTUARINE FISHES FROM MEDITERRANEAN REGION OF TURKEY, WITH A NEW HOST RECORD
Author/Authors :
innal, deniz burdur mehmet akif ersoy university - department of biology, Burdur, TURKEY , stavrescu-bedivan, mala-maria university of agronomic sciences and veterinary medicine - faculty of agriculture - department of plant protection, Bucharest, ROMANIA , ozmen, ozlem mehmet akif ersoy university - faculty of veterinary medicine - department of pathology, Burdur, TURKEY
Abstract :
Lernaeid copepod Lernaea cyprinacea L., 1758 has been reported on the skin and the external surfaces of fins from three freshwater fish hosts: endemic species Alburnus baliki Bogutskaya, Küçük Ünlü, 2000 and Pomatoschistus anatoliae Engin Innal, 2017 and on native species Chelon ramada Risso, 1827 sampled from Karpuzçay Creek Estuary, located in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. The highest prevalence of infection (7.5%) was reached in C. ramada, and the mean intensity was the same (1 parasite/fish) in all three host species. P. anatoliae (Gobiiformes: Gobiidae) was found as new host record for ectoparasite L. cyprinacea. Histopathological examination of the sections made in all analyzed fish hosts revealed chronic granulomatous inflammatory reaction and infiltration of lymphocytes, histiocytes and eosinophils around the parasite attachment sites.
Keywords :
copepod , estuary , fish host , histopathology , parasite
Journal title :
Agriculture and Forestry
Journal title :
Agriculture and Forestry
