Two species of Myxobolus are reported from the gills of Mugil cephalus collected at Goa, India: M. goensis n. sp. and M. parvus Shulman, 1962. Myxobolus goensis n. sp. forms digitiform or rounded plasmodia between the gill rakers. Their spores are oval in frontal view, with tapered anterior extremity, and lemon-shaped in lateral view, measuring 9.7 (9.5-10.5) microm in length, 6.6 (6-7.5) micro...

Length-weight relationships (LWRs) are useful for calculating weight based on measurements of length. Here we provide LWRs 17 species fish from the rivers Vltava and Elbe in Czech Republic, Central Europe. The samples were collected by electrofishing May 2016 to August 2019. There far fewer riverine than lotic fish. All significant with r2 values ranging 0.99 European barbel (Barbus barbus) 0.9...

Leuciscus is a genus of fish belonging to subfamily Leuciscinae. While, it widely distributed throughout Eurasia, our perception the phylogenetic relationships among its members mainly bas...

Rostrum dace (Leuciscus leuciscus burdigalensis) from the River Viaur were found to be infested with the ectoparasite Tracheliastes polycolpus (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae). Samples from five study sites along the river revealed different patterns of parasite infestation. Heavily infested fish were found at the upper study sites whereas much lower infestation levels were observed at the lower stud...

The efficiency of individual genetic tagging was determined by using passive integrated transponders (PIT) as a comparative conventional tagging method. Fifty-five common dace Leuciscus leuciscus were captured in the wild, PIT tagged and fin clipped (for DNA analysis). Thirty fish were recaptured on three occasions and tissue samples were collected. Using 18 microsatellite loci, 79-94% of the r...

Abstract Background In Germany and the EU, most headwaters are still far from reaching a good chemical ecological status as it is required by European Water Framework Directive (WFD), until 2027 latest. Particularly, in densely populated areas, impacts municipal industrial wastewater discharges or diffuse agricultural emissions matter of concern. This also applies to Nidda River which considere...