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PREVALENCE AND MORPHOLOGICAL IDENTIFICATION OF LERNAEA SPECIES IN (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix), IN FISH PONDS OF DISTRICT CHARSADDA KPK PAKISTAN.

. Inayat Ullah, Abdullah Khan, Fazl ur Rahman, Farhat Sunny, Muhammad Arif Hussain, Haris Hayat, Wajeeha, Summaia Saleem & Shabir Hussain.


Abstract

A consistent increase in the demand for fish meat in the market is the key to gaining high interest from researchers in the field of aquaculture. For this purpose, this study was carried out in district Chasradda Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan which is one of the known agricultural lands of the province and covered by three different rivers that is river Jindi, river Kabul, and river Swat, due to such enrichment of freshwater basin we investigated the prevalence and morphological identification of lernaeid parasites of (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) specie. Which is high mortality-causing parasites in fish species especially in juveniles. During our study based on morphological characteristics, we identified four different species of lernaeid parasites which includes L. cyprinacea with the highest prevalence percentage (42%). followed by L. palyrnorpha with a prevalence percentage of (22%) L. lophiara with a prevalence percentage of (14%) and the less prevailed lernaea parasite reported in our study L.arcuata with a prevalence percentage of (11%).

Keywords: Aquaculture, Prevalence, Mortality, anti-parasitic, Lernaeid, Infestation, catastrophic diseases.

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