Abstract

Surveying literature concerning the occurrence of the nematode larval forms of the genus Contracaecum in fishes of Iraq, showed the infection of 44 freshwater and marine fish species in Iraq with such larvae. The infection included larvae of unidentified Contracaecum species, Contracaecum rudolphii type-B and Contracaecum septentrionale Kreis, 1955. The infections were distributed in Tigris, Euphrates and Shatt Al-Arab rivers as well as some of their tributaries, lakes, marshes, drainage networks in addition to many fish ponds and floating cages in different parts of Iraq. This checklist also provided references on some histopathological and biochemical changes, some ecological aspects of the infection, life cycle and scanning electron microscopy. In addition, this checklist includes literature on six species of adult Contracaecum species as well some unidentified species of this genus from 17 bird species from different parts of Iraq, of which both Eurasian bittern Botaurus stellaris and pygmy cormorant Microcarbo pygmaeus were infected with a maximum number of three Contracaecum species as well as unidentified species of this genus.

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