Biodiversity of trematodes of the transboundary Jandar Lake fishes, Azerbaijan
Keywords:
parasites, helminths, Jandar Lake, trematodes, cercariae, metacercariae, fishAbstract
In 2007–2015 in the Jandar Lake, located on the border of Azerbaijan and Georgia, the author studied 246 specimens of fishes of 18 species by a method of complete helminthological autopsy and found 21 species of trematodes. Most of the detected species are the parasites of eye lens, intestine, and muscles; in the each of other organs of fishes 1 species was observed. All found species, with one exception, are able to parasitize in representatives of one or several families of fishes. In benthophages more than in other fishes there were found the species, which infect fish as result of eating of benthic invertebrates. In the gut of predator fishes the trematodes of swallowed by them fishes were registered. Among the all identified trematodes 11 species are pathogens of fishes, and 2 species are dangerous to human.
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