Shirbot (Barbus grypus) as a species with high potential for aquaculture development recently propagated artificially in South Iran Aquaculture Research Center to extend the species diversity in polyculture system. To provide an effective economic diet for this species 9 experimental diets containing three crude protein levels (250, 300, and 350 g kg -1) and three metabolizable energy levels ...

this study was conducted to determine taxonomic and zoogeographic features of fishes from the kor and helleh river basins in southwestern iran. the specimens were collected from 2004 to 2007. twenty four species belonging to 20 genera, 9 families, and 6 orders from the kor river basin and 21 species belonging to 19 genera, 8 families, and 6 orders from helleh basin were identified. ichthyofauna...

Anthropogenic activities, including the intentional releases of fish for enhancing populations (stocking), are recognized as adversely impacting the adaptive potential of wild populations. Here, the genetic characteristics of European barbel Barbus barbus were investigated using 18 populations in England, where it is indigenous to eastern-flowing rivers and where stocking has been used to enhan...

of fresh fish bile on guinea-worm embryos and also on cyclops infected as well as uninfected. It was found that fresh bile of the following species of fish, Barbus puckelli, Barbus punctatus and Barbus gelius, exerts a definite lethal action on cyclops and also on guinea-worm embryos. When undiluted fresh bile was used, it was found that it took about one to two minutes to kill the cyclops and ...

Metric and meristic characters are important to identify fish species and their habitat peculiarities. There are many species that belong to the fish genus Barbus, which is found in tropical and extratropical regions, but there are few studies covering the Coruh basin. Two subspecies of Barbus were found in the Coruh River system of Eastern Anatolia, Turkey: Barbus plebejus escherichi and Barbu...

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...