Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXIII, Issue 2
Written by Radoslava ZAHARIEVA, Diana KIRIN
In 2019, studies on the parasites and parasite communities of Chondrostoma nasus (Linnaeus, 1758) from the Danube River, Bulgaria (Koshava and Kudelin villages, Vidin region) were conducted. After ecoparasitological studies of a total of 155 specimens of C. nasus from the two biotopes, eight species of parasites were found: two species of the class Trematoda (Allocreadium isoporum (Looss, 1894), Sphaerostomum bramae (Müller, 1776)), one species of the class Cestoda (Bothriocephalus acheilognathi (Yamaguti, 1934, immature specimens)), one species from the class Acanthocephala (Pomphorhynchus laevis (Müller, 1776)) and four species from the class Nematoda (Raphidascaris acus (Bloch, 1779), larvae; Contracaecum sp., larvae; Hysterothylacium sp., larvae; Pseudocapillaria tomentosa (Dujardin, 1843)). The majority of parasite species (seven species) were detected during the spring from biotope Kudelin. The dominant parasite species in all three seasons was the nematode Contracaecum sp. C. nasus was reported as a new host for A. isoporum, S. bramae, B. acheilognathi, R. acus, Contracaecum sp., Hysterothylacium sp., P. tomentosa from the Bulgarian section of the Danube River. New data on the structure of parasite communities of the river freshwater ecosystem were presented.
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