Helminth communities of the Turkish endemic fish, Pseudophoxinus crassus (Ladiges, 1960): four helminth parasites for a new host record


Aydogdu A., Erk'akan F., KESKİN N., Innal D., ASLAN İ.

JOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY, cilt.30, sa.5, ss.937-940, 2014 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 30 Sayı: 5
  • Basım Tarihi: 2014
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1111/jai.12442
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.937-940
  • Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Tuz Golu (Salt Lake) Basin is one of the largest hypersaline lakes in the world and of extremely high biological importance owing to its high diversity and high level of endemism. It is hypothesized that the basin environment and the endemism of Pseudophoxinus crassus - a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family and found only in Turkey - might contribute to the host-specific parasite characters. A total of 92 P. crassus specimens were collected by electrofishing between spring 2009 and autumn 2010 from the Incesu Stream in Konya Province, Turkey. By the end of the study period, four parasitic helminth species (Gyrodactylus latus, Asymphylodora imitans, Bothriocephalus acheilognathi and Pomphorhynchus laevis) were recorded. All had been reported previously from other hosts (non-host specific). Among these parasites G. latus and A. imitans are new records for the helminth fauna of Turkey. Prevalence and infestation intensity, length classes, and sex compositions of infested populations, as well as the seasonality of infestation were obtained and the results compared with other studies.

Tuz Golu (Salt Lake) Basin is one of the largest hypersaline
lakes in the world and of extremely high biological importance
owing to its high diversity and high level of endemism.
It is hypothesized that the basin environment and the endemism
of Pseudophoxinus crassus – a species of ray-finned fish
in the Cyprinidae family and found only in Turkey – might
contribute to the host-specific parasite characters. A total of
92 P. crassus specimens were collected by electrofishing
between spring 2009 and autumn 2010 from the _Incesu
Stream in Konya Province, Turkey. By the end of the study
period, four parasitic helminth species (Gyrodactylus latus,
Asymphylodora imitans, Bothriocephalus acheilognathi and
Pomphorhynchus laevis) were recorded. All had been reported
previously from other hosts (non-host specific). Among these
parasites G. latus and A. imitans are new records for the helminth
fauna of Turkey. Prevalence and infestation intensity,
length classes, and sex compositions of infested populations,
as well as the seasonality of infestation were obtained and
the results compared with other studies.