Isolation And Diagnosis of The Tapeworms Parasitizing in Some Fish Species in Tigris River at Salah Al-Din Governorate, Iraq

Abstract

During the period from February 2021 to the end of January 2022, a total of 580 fish specimens belonging to seven families and 16 species from Tigris River at Tikrit city. The results revealed infection with seven species of cestoda, belong to five different families, Amphcotylidea (Eubothrium salvelini); Bothriocephalidae (Schyzocotyle acheilognathi); Cyathocephalilide (Caryophllaeus brachyocllois, Caryophllaeus fimbriceps, Khawia armeniaca); Diphyllobothridae (Ligula intestinalis) and Proteocephalidae (Postgangesia inarmata ).