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Manipulative Strategies of Aquatic Arthropods for Fish Parasitism: A Review

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Last updated: 29 Dec 2024

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Several aquatic arthropodan classes, including Arachnida, Crustacea, and Ostracoda can parasitize on fish and might cause discomfort or serious harm to their tissues. These organisms can parasitize fish through either obligatory, facultative, or opportunistic relationships according to their behavior or the surrounding conditions. Free-living arthropods may be induced to parasitize fish by various physiological, environmental, or biological stimuli. Some other non-fish parasites can switch their behavior towards fish parasitism. On one hand, members of both Classes Arachnida and Ostracoda are free-living and may exhibit opportunistic parasitism of fish through nocturnal predation or attacking weakened or captivated fish. On the other hand, Class: Crustacea is wide and comprises true fish parasites, non-fish parasites, and non-parasitic forms included in three Orders: Isopoda, Branchiura, and Copepoda. Isopods are efficient attackers targeting fish body surfaces, buccal cavities, and muscles through hydrodynamic impairment, sneaking as couples, and flesh-burrowing strategies. Branchiurans are true ectoparasites having well-developed senses for host localization and then follow a physiological strategy of injecting fish with toxic digestive fluids. When it comes to fish parasitic copepods, they are either females with robust structural features for infesting fish bodies or tiny-sized individuals capable of fish endo-parasitism by sneaking inside. Notably, the free-living and the non-fish parasitic crustaceans might be forced to parasitize fish facultatively, transitory, or occasionally. Parasitic and predatory arthropods possess structural facilities besides employing behavioral tactics for handling fish bodies successfully. The current manuscript surveyed the different strategies and unusual environmental conditions that facilitate fish parasitism by the aquatic Arthropods.

DOI

10.21608/sjsci.2024.275695.1187

Keywords

Aquatic mites, Crustacea, fish, Ostracoda, Parasites

Authors

First Name

Fatma

Last Name

Ahmed

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-

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Faculty Member, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, 82524 Sohag, Egypt

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fatmaelzahraa_ahmed@science.sohag.edu.eg

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0000-0003-2767-2010

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Ahmed

Last Name

Mahrous

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-

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B.Sc. Student, Zoology and Chemistry Program, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, 82524 Sohag, Egypt

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Orcid

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Yasser

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-

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B.Sc. Student, Zoology and Chemistry Program, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, 82524 Sohag, Egypt

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Orcid

-

First Name

Dina

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Abdullah

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-

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B.Sc. Student, Zoology and Chemistry Program, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, 82524 Sohag, Egypt

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First Name

Fam

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Yousef

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-

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B.Sc. Student, Zoology and Chemistry Program, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, 82524 Sohag, Egypt

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-

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First Name

Hossam

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Mohamed

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El-Deen

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B.Sc. Student, Zoology and Chemistry Program, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, 82524 Sohag, Egypt

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-

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First Name

Ismail

Last Name

Hassan

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-

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B.Sc. Student, Zoology and Chemistry Program, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, 82524 Sohag, Egypt

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Orcid

-

First Name

Manar

Last Name

Ali

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M.

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B.Sc. Student, Zoology and Chemistry Program, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, 82524 Sohag, Egypt

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-

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-

First Name

Mohamed

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Ashraf

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-

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B.Sc. Student, Zoology and Chemistry Program, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, 82524 Sohag, Egypt

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-

First Name

Asmaa

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Mustafa

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A.

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Faculty Member, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, 82524 Sohag, Egypt

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asmaa.ahmed@science.sohag.edu.eg

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Sohag

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-

First Name

Safa

Last Name

Elmasry

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M.

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Faculty Member, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, 82524 Sohag, Egypt

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safa_elmasry@science.sohag.edu.eg

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Sohag

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-

First Name

Nasra

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Zohry

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M.H.

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Faculty Member, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, 82524 Sohag, Egypt

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nasramohamed917@gmail.com

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Sohag

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-

First Name

Ebtesam

Last Name

Yousef

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A.

Affiliation

Faculty Member, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, 82524 Sohag, Egypt

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ebtesam_yousef@science.sohag.edu.eg

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Sohag

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-

First Name

Tarek

Last Name

Ismail

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G.

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Faculty Member, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, 82524 Sohag, Egypt

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tarek_ismail@science.sohag.edu.eg

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Sohag

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-

First Name

Azza

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Khedre

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M.

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Faculty Member, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, 82524 Sohag, Egypt

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-

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-

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-

First Name

Somaia

Last Name

Ramadan

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A.

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Faculty Member, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, 82524 Sohag, Egypt

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asmaa.ahmed1@science.sohag.edu.eg

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Sohag

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Volume

9

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3

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46685

Issue Date

2024-09-01

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2024-03-11

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2024-09-01

Page Start

357

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366

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2357-0938

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2974-4296

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SJSCI_Volume 9_Issue 3_Pages 357-366.pdf

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Manipulative Strategies of Aquatic Arthropods for Fish Parasitism: A Review

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