Abstract
This study was conducted to determine the frequency of metazoan parasitic infections of Mosul b leak ( Alburnus mossulensis ) in Murat River in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey. A total of 182 host fish were investigated, from January 2015 to March 2016. There were 972 metazoan parasites recorded in collected samples. Six species of Monogenea ( Dactylogyrus holciki , Dactylogyrus lenkorani, Dactylogyrus alatus , Dactylogyrus vistulae, Gyrodactylus sp., and Paradiplozoon homoion ), one species of Digenea ( Diplostomum spathaceum ), two species of Cestoda ( Caryophyllaeus laticeps, Ligula intestinalis ), one species of Nematoda ( Rhabdochona denudata ), one species of Hirudinea ( Piscicola geometra ) , and one species of Copepoda ( Eergasilus sp.) observed respectively. According to their prevalence from high to low ranks; Eergasilus sp. (34.6%), D. spathaceum (33%), P. homoion (19.8%), D. holciki (12.1%), C. laticeps (7.1%) D. alatus (6.6%), D. lenkorani (4.9%), R. denudata (4.9%), Gyrodactylus sp. (3.8%), P. geometra (1.6%), D. vistulae (1.1%) and L. intestinalis (0.5%) were calculated. Among these parasites D. lenkorani , D. vistulae, P. homoion, C. laticeps and R. denudata are the first record on Mosul b leak and D. holciki is the first record for Turkey freshwater fish parasites.
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