METAZOAN PARASITES OF CATFISH ( SILURUS GLANIS, LINNAEUS,1758 ) FROM DURUSU (TERKOS ) LAKE

Metazoan parasites of catfish (Silurus glanis, Linnaeus,1758) from Durusu (Terkos ) Lake

Erhan Soylu

Vacational School of Technical Sciences, Fisheries Department, Marmara University, Istanbul, 34722, TURKEY

Abstract

Total 43 Silurus glanis samples were investigated in order to detect parasites from June 2002 to May 2003 taken from Durusu (Terkos) lake. Parasites belonging to six species were recorded; Ancylodiscoides siluri (Zandt, 1924) and Ancylodiscoides vistulensis (Sivak, 1932) from Monogenoidea, Siluritaenia siluri (Batsch, 1786) from Cestoidea, Diplostomum sp. from Trematoda, Eustrongylides excisus (Jagerskiöld, 1909) from Nematoda and Argulus foliaceus(Linnaeus, 1758) from Crustacea.

Keywords: Fish, parasites, Monogenea, Cestoda, Trematoda, Nematoda, Crustacea