Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXIV, Issue 1
Written by Radoslava ZAHARIEVA, Diana KIRIN
In 2020, 37 specimens of vimba bream (Vimba vimba Linnaeus, 1758) from the Danube River near the village of Kudelin were examined for parasites. Four parasite species were established: Nicolla skrjabini (Iwanitzky, 1928) and Posthodiplostomum cuticola (von Nordmann, 1832) (Trematoda); Pomphorhynchus laevis (Zoega in Müller, 1776) (Acanthocephala) and Philometra rischta Skrjabin, 1917 (Nematoda). The study aims to provide new data on parasites and parasite communities of Vimba vimba from the Danube River’s freshwater ecosystem near the village of Kudelin in northwestern Bulgaria. In the study, the prevalence (P%), mean intensity (MI), mean abundance (MA) and the Brillouin’s diversity index (HB) were presented and discussed.
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