MONOGENEAN INFECTION IN FISH FROM AN ARTIFICIAL POND IN SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIA

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Fisheries Unit, Department of Animal and Environmental Biology, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

2 Marine Biology and Ecotoxicology Unit, Department of Animal and Environmental Biology, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

3 Parasitology Unit, Department of Animal and Environmental Biology, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

Abstract

Citharinus citharus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809) or the moon fish collected from an artificial 
pond in southeastern Nigeria were found to be infected with Citharodatylus gagei (Přikrylová et 
al, 2017). This represents a new geographical record for the parasite and is its first report in the 
fish host from Nigeria. 

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