A survey on myxosporean parasites of freshwater fishes from Mesopotamian part of Iran (south western part of the country, Khuzestan Province) was carried out. Some 280 individuals belonging to 14 different species were examined the prevalence of myxosporean parasites, morphology of the spores, plasmodial development, the infective site, and characteristics of the cyst location using the histolo...

a total of 76 specimens of three fish species including: hemiculter lucisculus (41), liza auratus (16) and gasterosteus aculeutus (19) were caught using handnet from 3 station in zardi river in the south-eastern costal of caspian sea at autumn and winter 2009 and spring 2010. the fishes were transported alive to the laboratory of shahid rajaee site. they were killed by cutting their spinal cord...

as a part of a major ecological study of hanna wetland, semirum region, isfahan province, parasitic infestation of 3 native and one introduced fish species were investigated. a total of 120 fish specimens were collected by both cast net and a series of gillnets between fall and winter 2007, and spring and summer 2008. some of the observed parasites are reported for the first time as new host re...