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Identification of Selected Cestodes Affecting Some Marine Fish

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Aquatic animal and Management

Abstract

In the last winter, a total of wild marine fish species were collected from two different marine water sources. Samples were clustered into 70 bysuria (Engraulis encrasicolus) fish that were collected from Mediterranean coasts of Damietta and 50 grouper (Epinephelus gigas) from Hurghada Red Sea coast. Bysuria fish were examined for the presence of abdominal and intestinal cestodes larvae. In grouper, larvae were detected in intestine, abdominal cavities, liver, spleen and gonads in grouper fish that can be seen by naked eyes. The total infestation rate of larval cestodes in examined fish was 50%. As 54% of the detected larvae in Bysuria fish were belonging to diphyllobothrid plerocercoid larvae, while 44 % of detected larvae in grouper were belonging to Trypanorhyncha Plerocrcoid larvae. The morphological characters of the detected larvae were discussed. Molecular analysis was performed to confirm the final ID of the detected diphillobothrid larvae. 

DOI

10.21608/ejah.2021.184705

Keywords

marine fish, Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Plerocercoids, diphyllobothriidae, Molecular biology

Volume

1

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

25087

Issue Date

2021-07-01

Receive Date

2021-01-28

Publish Date

2021-07-01

Page Start

21

Page End

29

Print ISSN

2735-4938

Online ISSN

2735-4946

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https://ejah.journals.ekb.eg/article_184705.html

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https://ejah.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=184705

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3

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Original researches

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1,636

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Animal Health

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https://ejah.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Identification of Selected Cestodes Affecting Some Marine Fish

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Article

Created At

23 Jan 2023