تسجيل جديد لثلاثة مثقوبات من عائلة Microphallidae من بعض الطيور المائية في محافظة البصرة، العراق

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A total of 70 specimens of birds including 48 of Vanellus leucura, 10 of Hoplopterus indicus, four of Galidris alpine & eight of Nycticorax nycticorax were collected from Al-Mashab region north of Basrah province.

These birds were found infected by three trematodes.

These trematodes which is belong to the family Microphallidae including Levinseniella propinqua, Microphallus sp.

and Maritrema sp.

The description of these worms is given.

These trematodes recorded for the first time in Iraq.