SOME OBSERVATIONS ON FISHES AND THEIR PARASITES OF DARBANDIKHAN LAKE, KURDISTAN REGION IN NORTH IRAQ

摘要: A total of 255 freshwater fishes, belonging to 17 species, namely: Barbus barbulus, B. grypus, Capoeta trutta, umbla, Carasobarbus luteus, Carassius auratus, Chondrostoma regium, Cyprinion macrostomum, Cyprinus carpio, Garra rufa, Hemiculter leucisculus, Hypophthalmichthys molitrix, Luciobarbus esocinus, Squalius lepidus (Family Cyprinidae), Mystus pelusius (Bagridae), Silurus triostegus (Siluridae) and Mastacembelus mastacembelus (Mastacembelidae), were collected from Darbandikhan Lake, southeast Sulaimani city, Kurdistan region, Iraq, March 2012 the end October 2012. The fishes examined for ectoparasites endoparasites. study revealed existence 45 species parasites including: seven protozoans, 29 monogeneans, two trematodes, one each cestode nematode, acanthocephalans three crustaceans. present that Dactylogyrus suchengtaii D. carassobarbi most prevalent (100% 90.90%, respectively) in lake, while Scyphidia arctica was scarce (1.44%). fish C. trutta highly infected with (nine species), followed by S. (eight species) both luteus M. (six each), G. rufa H. molitrix less (one each). ciliated protozoan Ichthyophthirius multifiliis recorded on prevalence ranged between 2.89% 23.52%, crustacean Lernaea cyprinacea which four (5% - 27.27%).