During the present investigation, 23 species of fish in Lithuanian inner waters were examined for helminth parasites. Of these, 63 taxa helminths – 56 Plathyhelminthes, five Nematoda, and two Acanthocephales found. Monogenea Gyrodactylus truttae was registered Lithuania first time. Metacercariae flukes Diplostomum sp., Posthodiplostomum cuticula, Tylodelphys clavata found highest number host sp...

AIMS To identify the causative agent of the mortality in the fish, Mugil cephalus, in Muttukadu lagoon. METHODS AND RESULTS An enteric bacterium from the kidneys of moribund fish M. cephalus, was isolated and identified as Enterobacter cloacae (MK). Mugil cephalus was experimentally infected by this isolate and was re-isolated from the kidneys of the moribund fish. Enterobacter cloacae isolat...

quantifying morphological characteristics of body shape in fishes can help their correct identification as well as understanding of evolutionary history of their different populations. hence, this study was aimed to compare the morphological characteristics of different population of tuini fish (capoeta damascina) in inland-water of iran using geometic morphometrics method (gm). in total 373 sp...

This study was carried out between November 2013 and May 2015, to determine the fish fauna inhabited in Atatürk Dam lake. The specimens were obtained by different technical fishing gears. It determined that caught belonging 25 species (Capoeta trutta, Capoeta umbla, Cyprinon macrostomus, Arabibarbus grypus, Carasobarbus luteus, Carassius carassius, gibelio, Cyprinus carpio, Garra variabilis, Lu...