TY  - JOUR
T1  - Parasitic Fauna of Six Species of Ornamental Freshwater Fish Species from the North of Iran
AU - Adel, Milad AU - Ghasempour, Fatemeh AU - Azizi, Hamid Reza AU - Safian, Ahmad Reza AU - Amiri, Armin Abedian 
JO  - Journal of Fisheries International
VL  - 8
IS  - 3
SP  - 78
EP  - 80
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1817-3381
DO  - jfish.2013.78.80
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jfish.2013.78.80
KW  - Parasitic fauna
KW  -Ornamental fish
KW  -Capillaria sp.
KW  -infected
KW  -Iran
AB  - The main objective of this study was to determine the parasitic 
  infections of aquarium fish in the North of Iran. Here, 360 apparently healthy 
  ornamental fish from 6 species (each species 60 specimens) including: Guppy 
  (<I>Poecilia reticulate</I>), gourami (<I>Osphronemus gouramy</I>), Swordtail 
  (<I>Xiphophorus hellerii</I>), Platy (<I>Xiphophorus maculates</I>), <I>Brachydanio 
  rerio</I> and barbs (<I>Barbus tetrazona</I>) was obtained from a local ornamental 
  fish farm in the North of Iran during 2012-2013. Each fish was inspected and 
  examined by routine methods. The parasitical infection was studied by sampling 
  from different organs. Among 360 investigated ornamental fish, 328 fish (91.1%) 
  were infected by at least one parasite species. In this study, 5 different genus 
  including: <I>Ichthyophtirius multifilis</I>, <I>Dactylogyrus</I>, <I>Gyrodactylus</I>, 
  <I>Tricodina</I> and <I>Capillaria</I> sp. were collected from 6 species. Also, 
  <I>Capillaria</I> sp. was reported as a first record from the abdominal cavity 
  of <I>O</I>. <I>gouramy</I> in Iran.
ER  -