Abstract
A total of 30 specimens of house sparrow Passer domesticus biblicus Hartert, 1904 (15 females and 15 males) were collected from gardens of some houses in Baghdad city; all birds were dissected to identify the parasites in vesicle, gizzard, intestine, gall bladder and caecum. One species of trematodes Brachydistomum microscelis (Yamaguti, 1933) was found in the gall bladder and two species of cestodes Anonchotaenia globata (von Linstow, 1879) and Raillietina tetragona (Molin, 1858) were found in the small intestine of house sparrow. Morphologic and morphometric measurements were considered. The genus Brachydistomum Travassos, 1944 is being recorded for the first time in Iraq in the gall bladder of house sparrow, as it was not previously recorded from birds in Iraq.
Highlights
Passer domesticus biblicus Hartert, 1904 is a cosmopolitan bird that distributes in the wide world (Taraschewski, 2006)
The current study revealed that the female of house sparrow was infected with the trematoda Brachydistomum microscelis in the gall bladder and three other birds (2 females and one male) were infected with cestodes in the gut Anonchotaenia globata and Raillietina tetragona
The current study revealed a new record of the trematoda Brachydistomum microscelis according to Yamaguti, (1958) and Bray et al (2008) as follow: Host Order: Passeriformes Host Family: Passeridae Host Genus: Passer Host Species: domesticus biblicus Locality: Baghdad, Iraq
Summary
Passer domesticus biblicus Hartert, 1904 is a cosmopolitan bird that distributes in the wide world (Taraschewski, 2006). In Iraq, it is an abundance bird, especially in central Iraq (Allouse, 1962; Salim et al, 2006). Few previous studies on house sparrow parasites in Iraq were carried out, only two studies about blood parasites were published (Shamsuddin and Mohammad, 1980; Mohammad, 1990). The study of Abdulabas (2005) found that two species of cestodes in the intestine of the house sparrow in Al-Najaf province. New record of Brachydistomum microscelis (2012) recorded nematodes in gizzard in Baghdad city. Jenzeel et al (2015) and Alsaadi et al (2016) recorded seven species of cestodes in small intestine of house sparrow in Tikrit city, Iraq
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