Abstract
During a survey on helminth parasites infecting marine fishes captured from water locations at Abu-Qalawa and Saad reef regions along Hurghada coasts of the Red Sea in Egypt during the period from June to December 2017, two different species of nematode parasites were isolated as a new host and locality records. These were Neocamallanus singhi (L3, f: Camallanidae) and Buckleynema buckleyi (L3, Quimperiidae) isolated from Cheilinus undulatus (Family: labridae, no. 34) and Atherina boyeri (Family: Atherinidae, no. 18) respectively. The parasites were described morphologically by light microscopy. They were compared with similar species isolated previously from different hosts worldwide. The study concluded that marine fishes species of the Red Sea should receive much attention for parasitic species infecting fishes in order to collect a lot of data concerning parasitic worms which could be transferred to humans causing dangerous diseases.
Highlights
Growing populations and food shortage constitute the most important problems all over the world especially in Africa, so that scientists still trying to find solutions for these problems (Morsy et al, 2013)
Neocamallanus singhiis isolated from the intestine of Cheilinus undulatus recovered from the Red Sea water at Hurghada City in Egypt
Buckleynema buckleyiis isolated from the intestine of the big-scale sand smelt Atherina boyeri
Summary
Growing populations and food shortage constitute the most important problems all over the world especially in Africa, so that scientists still trying to find solutions for these problems (Morsy et al, 2013). Fishes play an important role in human nutrition and fish farming, apparently offers a solution to the problem of the increasing human population (Maghrabi et al, 2010), it is one of our most valuable sources of protein food. It is worth mentioning that, fish nematodes represent an important public health problem, because fishes may be a source of serious nematode diseases to man as anisakid worms. These constitute one of the earliest known groups of helminthes in fishes and they infest marine, brackish and fresh-water fishes. Nematodes have been collected from many tissues and organs within fishes, adult nematodes are moderately site-specific within fishes
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