ISSN 2756-3391
African Journal of Parasitology Research ISSN 2343-6549 Vol. 5 (7), pp. 331-337, July, 2018. © International Scholars Journals
Full Length Research Paper
Copepod parasitic richness, specificity and host epidemiological characters of infestation parameters
Chahinez Boualleg1, Hadda Ferhati1, Nouha Kaouachi1, Mourad Bensouilah1 and Sonia Ternengo2
1Laboratoire d’Ecobiologie des Milieux Marins et Littoraux, Faculté des Sciences, Université Badji Mokhtar Annaba, BP:
12 El- Hadjar, Annaba 23000, Algérie.
2Laboratoire (Parasites et écosystèmes méditerranéens), Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université de Corse, CNRS UMR 6134, BP 52, 20250, Corte, France.
*Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected]
Accepted 06 January, 2017
Abstract
The examination of the gills of 960 fishes belonging to four species: Diplodus annularis, Pagellus erythrinus, Lithognatus mormyrus and Mullus barbatus collected from the Gulf of Annaba, enabled us to identify 13 species of parasitic copepods: Caligus ligusticus, Caligus diaphanus, Clavellotis sp, Clavellotis sargi, Clavellotis pagri, Clavellotis strumosa, Lernaeolophus sultanus, Hatschekia pagellibogneravei, Hatschekia sp, Hatschekia mulli, Sparidicola lithognathi, Neobrachiella exigua and Alella macrotrachelus. The distribution of copepods identified, varies from one host species to another and one season to another. P. erythrinus and L. mormyrus present the important number of copepods species. However, the winter presents the highest parasitic diversity (13). Furthermore, the majority of oixenous species are counted. The rates of most values are recorded in summer (33%) and spring (25%). It is also, D. annularis which shelters more of the 2/3 population of copepods collected. The copepod H. pagellibogneravei is the most abundant. The evaluation of parasitic indices shows that, it is during the summer and spring that the maximum values are recorded.
Key words: Copepod gills, Gulf of Annaba, teleost fish, season.