CONTRIBUTION TO PARASITE FAUNA OF PRESPA ROACH RUTILUS PRESPENSIS (KARAMAN, 1924) (PISCES: CYPRINIDAE) IN LAKE PRESPA, NORTH MACEDONIA

Stojanovski, Stojmir and Blazhekovikj - Dimovska, Dijana and Smiljkov, Stoe (2019) CONTRIBUTION TO PARASITE FAUNA OF PRESPA ROACH RUTILUS PRESPENSIS (KARAMAN, 1924) (PISCES: CYPRINIDAE) IN LAKE PRESPA, NORTH MACEDONIA. THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ZOOLOGY, ZOONOSES AND EPIDEMIOLOGY. p. 121. ISSN 978-619-202-507-6

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Abstract

Eight out of the eleven indigenous fish species of Prespa are endemic, i.e. they exist only in the Prespa region and in no other place on earth. One of these endemic fish species is Prespa roach (Rutilus prespensis).
The parasitological examination from the Macedonian part of the Lake Prespa showed that 175 specimens of Prespa roach fishes were infested of the 183 examined (95.63%). In our case study the presence of 14 parasite species was established: Myxobolus cyprini, Myxobolus dispar, Chilodonella piscicola, Dactylogyrus sphyrna, Dactylogyrus erhardovae, Paradiplozoon zeller, Nicolla testiobliquum, Posthodiplostomum cuticola (larva), Caryophyllaeus laticeps, Ligula intestinalis (plerocerkoid), Philometra ovata, Contracaecum microcephalum (larva), Metechinorhynchus truttae and Ergasilus sieboldi. Individually, by the parasite species, the highest prevalence was with Posthodiplostomum cuticola(larva) (84.70%), Ligula intestinalis (plerocerkoid) (77.04%) and Dactylogyrus
sphyrna (38.80%). The lowest one was with Caryophyllaeus
laticeps and Philometra ovata (0.55%). In our case study the parasite Dactylogyrus erhardovae is recorded for the first time in the ichthyoparasitofauna of Lake Prespa and North Macedonia.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Scientific Fields (Frascati) > Agricultural Sciences > Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
Scientific Fields (Frascati) > Natural sciences > Biological sciences
Scientific Fields (Frascati) > Agricultural Sciences > Veterinary science
Divisions: Faculty of Biotechnical Sciences
Depositing User: Prof. d-r Dijana Blazhekovikj - Dimovska
Date Deposited: 27 Jun 2020 21:59
Last Modified: 27 Jun 2020 21:59
URI: https://eprints.uklo.edu.mk/id/eprint/5489

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