Result obtained during ten years research work (1990-2000) on distribution of monogenean fauna Iranian fishes indicates that its composition of monogenean fauna of Iranian fishes depends on their habit and since Iran includes three different zoogeographical zones with highly endemic fish hosts, its monogenean parasites have specific composition. The Caspian fauna is characterized by relatively ...

Result obtained during ten years research work (1990-2000) on distribution of monogenean fauna Iranian fishes indicates that its composition of monogenean fauna of Iranian fishes depends on their habit and since Iran includes three different zoogeographical zones with highly endemic fish hosts, its monogenean parasites have specific composition. The Caspian fauna is characterized by relatively ...

The monogenean ectoparasite genera Dactylogyrus and Gyrodactylus are hyperdiverse, and yet monogenean communities infecting freshwater fish in the northern Holarctic are variable and often impoverished. This is a result of extinctions during periods of glaciation when the host fishes experienced range contraction. Fish species recolonised northern Europe by one of three routes; stenohaline fish...

Müller [1] was the first to describe a monogenean, collected from the skin of the halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus). However, he regarded the parasite as a leech and named it Hirudo hippoglossi. It was not until 1858 that its status as a monogenean was established by van Beneden [2] and named Epibdella (now Entobdella) hippoglossi. Van Beneden published a detailed and accurate description of ...

The Monogenea are an ideal group for investigations of the processes behind their past diversification and their present diversity for at least three reasons: they are diverse both in terms of morphology and numbers, they are generally host specific, and their phylogeny is well resolved, at least to the family level. The present investigation takes a broad look at monogenean diversity in order ...

The present study was performed to identify and validate monogenean species from different piscine hosts using molecular tools. Nine species of freshwater monogeneans were collected from gills and skin of freshwater fishes at Hastinapur, Meerut, India. After microscopic examination, molecular analysis was performed utilizing 28S gene marker. Phylogenetic analysis indicated the validation and sy...

P.A.S. OLIVIER, S.M. DIPPENAAR, L.F. KHALIL & N.M . MOKGALONG. 2000. Observations on a lesser-known monogenean, Udonella myliobati, from a copepod parasite, Lepeophtheirus natalensis, parasitizing the spotted ragged-tooth shark, Carcharias taurus, from South African waters. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 67: 135-140 The phylogeny of the genus Udonella has been disputed for quite ...

Grass carp is an herbivorous species, which is actually popular in Iran. Monogenean parasites, particularly members of the family Dactylogyridae, have been one of the main causes of mortalities in Iranian fish farms and therefore they have been subject of many studies in Iran. The main aim of the present study was to describe morphological and molecular characteristics of monogenean parasites r...

The present investigation was carried out to compare the haematological and biochemical parameters in healthy and Monogenean infected Cyprinus carpio. The haematological analysis showed significant reduction (P<0.01) in RBC, haemoglobin, haematocrit (PCV) and lymphocyte in monogenean infected fishes, whereas total leucocyte count (TLC), neutrophils, eosinophils and monocytes significantly incre...

The Order Monogenea of the Class Trematoda contains (Sproston, 1946) upwards of 679 species, but in only twenty-four of these species has a larval form been described. Of these larvae, fourteen belong to adults that parasitize fresh-water fishes, amphibians or reptiles, and ten to adults that parasitize marine fishes. Udonella caligorum is known (Sproston, 1946) hot to have a larval stage in it...