First record of three species of trematodes of the genus Clinostomum Leidy, 1856 ( Digenea : Clinostomidae)‎ parasitic in piscivorous birds from East Al-Hammar Marsh, South of Iraq

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Three species of trematodes, genus Clinostomum Leidy, 1856 were described from three different species of piscivorous birds (viz.

C.

complanatum Leidy, 1856 from grey heron Ardea cinerea and from small white Bittern Ardeola ralloides, C.

dasi Bhalerao, 1942 from Bittern Botaurus stellaris and Clinostomum sp.

from each of A.

cinerea and A.

ralloides).

Birds were captured from East Al-Hammar marsh, south of Iraq during December- February 2004 and December 2005.

The genus Clinostomum and its three species were recorded and described as adult for the first time in Iraq.