Epizootiological studies on some adult digeneans in clarias gariepinus with special emphasis on two new species in Kafr el-Sheikh fish farms

Abstract EN

A total number of 400 African catfish, Clarias gariepinus were collected alive from different freshwater fish farms at Sedi- Salem and El-Ryad districts in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate, to investigate the digenetic trematodes infecting fish as a final host.

The isolated seven flukes were identified as: Emoleptalea sp., (from intestine), Phyllodistomum sp., (from kidney) as new records, Orientocreadium batrachoides, Orientocreadium lazeri, Astiotrema reniferum, Paramacroderoides echinus (from intestine) and Eumasenia aegypticus (from stomach).

Clinical signs, postmortem examination, seasonal prevalence and histological investigations of infected fish were recorded.