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The first report and a new host record of leech fish, Trachelobdella lubrica (Grube, 1840) infecting the gills of Sparus aurata (Linnaeus, 1758) from the Gulf of Bejaia, Algeria

Year 2023, , 271 - 275, 11.10.2023

Souhila Ramdanı

https://doi.org/10.3153/AR23026

Abstract

This study is to be the first report and new host record of segmented worms in the family Piscicolidae, Trachelobdella lubrica parasitizing Sparus aurata off the coasts of Algeria. Sparus aurata constitutes new host record for Trachelobdella lubrica. 05 specimens of Sparus aurata were examined for their leech parasites. A single specimen of leech species was recovered from the gills of Sparus aurata. Typical characters allowed us to classify the leech as Trachelobdella lubrica.

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First report Trachelobdella lubrica New host Sparus aurata Algeria

References

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  • Bielecki, A., Rokicka, M., Ropelewska, E., Dziekońska−Rynko, J. (2008). Leeches (Hirudinida: Piscicolidae) parasites of Antarctic fish from Channichthyidae family. Wiadomooeci Parazytologiczne, 54(4), 345-348.
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  • Burreson, E., Martínez, A., Núñez, J., Moro, L. (2006). Primeros registros en Canarias de sanguijuelas marinas (Hirudinea, Piscicolidae). Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias, XVIII (Núm. 4), 61-65.
  • Burreson, E.M. (2020). Marine and estuarine leeches (Hirudinida: Ozobranchidae and Piscicolidae) of Australia and New Zealand with a key to the species. Invertebrate Systematics, 34, 235-259. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS19048
  • Cruz-Lacierda, E.R., Toledo, J.D., Tan-Fermin, J.D., Burreson, E.M. (2000). Marine leech (Zeylanicobdella arugamensis) infestation in cultured, orange-spotted grouper, Epinephelus coioides. Aquaculture, 185(3-4), 191-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0044-8486(99)00356-7
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  • Liuzzo, M., Alfonso, G., Beli, E., Arculeo, M., Marrone, F. (2018). First record of the alien leech Myzobdella lugubris Leidy, 1851 (Hirudinea, Piscicolidae) in the Palearctic. Limnetica, 37(2), 311-318. https://doi.org/10.23818/limn.37.25
  • Negm Eldin, M. (1995). Preliminary observation on leech (Hirudinea) infections in tilapia fish. Alexandria Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 11, 67-74.
  • Murwantoko, M., Negoro, S. L. C., Isnansetyo, A., Zafran, Z. (2018). Identification of marine leech and assessment of its prevalence and intensity on cultured hybrid groupers (Epinephelus sp.). Biodiversitas, 19(5), 1798-1804. https://doi.org/10.13057/biodiv/d190529
  • Oktener, A., Utevsky, S. Y. (2010). New information on the hosts and distribution of the marine fish leeches Trachelobdella lubrica and Pontobdella muricata (Clitellata, Hirudinida). Vestnik Zoologii, 44(4): e-33–e-36. https://doi.org/10.2478/v10058-010-0023-9
  • Opara, K. (2002). Population dynamics of Piscicola geometra (Hirudinea: Rhynchobdellida) on Oreochromis niloticus (cichlidae) cultured in a rainforest pond, South Eastern Nigeria. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 14, 536-540.
  • Saglam, N., Oguz, M. C., Celik, E.S., Doyuk, S.A., Usta, A. (2003). Pontobdella muricata and Trachelobdella lubrica (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae) on some marine fishes in the Dardanelles, Turkey. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 83, 1315-1316. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315403008749
  • Sawyer, R.T., Lawler, A.R., Overstreet, R.M. (1975). Marine Leeches of the Eastern United States and the Gulf of Mexico with a Key to the Species. Journal of Natural History, 9(6), 633-667. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222937500770531
  • Schulz, C.A., Thomas, M.V., Fitzgerald, S., Faisal, M. (2011). Leeches (Annelida: Hirudinida) Parasitizing Fish of Lake St. Clair, Michigan, U.S.A. Comparative Parasitology, 78(1), 73-83. https://doi.org/10.1654/4439.1
  • Volonterio, O., López-de León, E., de León, R.P. (2004). Infestation dynamics and histopathology of two species of freshwater leeches (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae) on teleost fish from Uruguay. Comparative Parasitology, 71(1), 21-28. https://doi.org/10.1654/4087
  • Ernest, H., Williams, J. R., Bunkley-Williams, L., Burreson, E. M. (1994). Some New Records of Marine and Freshwater Leeches from Caribbean, Southeastern U.S.A., Eastern Pacific, and Okinawan Animals. The Helminthological Society of Washington, 61(1), 133-138.
  • Yanar, A., Özak, A. A., Başusta, N. (2019). A new record of Pontobdella muricata (Annelida: Hirudinea: Piscicolidae) from Iskenderun Bay, northeastern Mediterranean Turkey. Biharean Biologist, 13(1), 42-43.

Year 2023, , 271 - 275, 11.10.2023

Souhila Ramdanı

https://doi.org/10.3153/AR23026

Abstract

References

  • Ahne, W. (1985). Argulus foliaceus L. and Piscicola geometra L. as mechanical vectors of spring viraemia of carp virus (SVCV). Journal of Fish Diseases, 8, 241-242. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2761.1985.tb01220.x
  • Ben Ahmed, R., Romdhane, Y., Tekaya, S. (2015). Checklist and distribution of marine and freshwater leeches (Annelida, Clitellata, Hirudinea) in Tunisia with identification key. Ecologica Montenegra. 2(1), 2015, 3-19. https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2015.2.1
  • Bielecki, A., Rokicka, M., Ropelewska, E., Dziekońska−Rynko, J. (2008). Leeches (Hirudinida: Piscicolidae) parasites of Antarctic fish from Channichthyidae family. Wiadomooeci Parazytologiczne, 54(4), 345-348.
  • Bielecki, A., Kapusta, A., Cichocka, J.M. (2011). Atlantic sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrinchus Mitchill, infected by the parasitic leech, Caspiobdella fadejewi (Epshtein) (Hirudinea; Piscicolidae), in the Drwêca River. Archives of Polish Fisheries, 19, 87-93. https://doi.org/10.2478/v10086-011-0010-y
  • Bottari, T., Profeta, A., Rinelli, P., Gaglio, G., La Spada, G., Smedile, F., Giordano, D. (2017). On the presence of Pontobdella muricata (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae) on some elasmobranchs of the Tyrrhenian Sea (Central Mediterranean). Acta Adriatica, 58(2), 225-234. https://doi.org/10.32582/aa.58.2.3
  • Burreson, E., Martínez, A., Núñez, J., Moro, L. (2006). Primeros registros en Canarias de sanguijuelas marinas (Hirudinea, Piscicolidae). Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias, XVIII (Núm. 4), 61-65.
  • Burreson, E.M. (2020). Marine and estuarine leeches (Hirudinida: Ozobranchidae and Piscicolidae) of Australia and New Zealand with a key to the species. Invertebrate Systematics, 34, 235-259. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS19048
  • Cruz-Lacierda, E.R., Toledo, J.D., Tan-Fermin, J.D., Burreson, E.M. (2000). Marine leech (Zeylanicobdella arugamensis) infestation in cultured, orange-spotted grouper, Epinephelus coioides. Aquaculture, 185(3-4), 191-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0044-8486(99)00356-7
  • Epshteĭn, V.M. (1973). New information on the structure, geographic distribution and hosts of the tropical marine leech Trachelobdella lubrica (Piscicolidae). Parazitologiia, 7(5), 427-436.
  • Gabel, M., Unger, P., Theisen, S., Palm, H.W., Rothman, S.B.S., Yitzhak, N., Morov, A.R., Stern, N. (2022). Parasites of pufferfish, Lagocephalus spp. and Torquigener flavimaculosus of the Israeli Mediterranean: A new case of Lessepsian endoparasites. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 19, 211-221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2022.09.003
  • Garces, B.H.A. (1995). Primer informe de Trachelobdella lubrica (Piscicolidae) en Sciaenops ocellatus (Sciaenidae). Revista Pradepesca, 6/7. P. 54-55.
  • Ghion, F., Guidastri, R., Cittolin, G. (1982). New record of the leech Trachelobdella lubrica (Grube, 1840) from the sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) in the brackish water coastal ponds of the Po River delta, Northern Italy [(Anellida Hirudinea). Rivista-Italiana-di-Piscicoltura-e-Ittiopatologia, 17(4), 172-175.
  • Kabata, Z. (1985). Parasites and Diseases of Fish Cultured in the Tropics. Taylor & Francis, London & Philadelphia. ISBN: 0-85066-285-0
  • Kaygorodova, I.A., Dzyuba, E.V., Pronin, N.M. (2011). Leech-like parasites (Clitellata, Acanthobdellida) infecting native and endemic eastern Siberian Salmon fishes. The Scientific World Journal, 2012, 652827. https://doi.org/10.1100/2012/652827
  • Liuzzo, M., Alfonso, G., Beli, E., Arculeo, M., Marrone, F. (2018). First record of the alien leech Myzobdella lugubris Leidy, 1851 (Hirudinea, Piscicolidae) in the Palearctic. Limnetica, 37(2), 311-318. https://doi.org/10.23818/limn.37.25
  • Negm Eldin, M. (1995). Preliminary observation on leech (Hirudinea) infections in tilapia fish. Alexandria Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 11, 67-74.
  • Murwantoko, M., Negoro, S. L. C., Isnansetyo, A., Zafran, Z. (2018). Identification of marine leech and assessment of its prevalence and intensity on cultured hybrid groupers (Epinephelus sp.). Biodiversitas, 19(5), 1798-1804. https://doi.org/10.13057/biodiv/d190529
  • Oktener, A., Utevsky, S. Y. (2010). New information on the hosts and distribution of the marine fish leeches Trachelobdella lubrica and Pontobdella muricata (Clitellata, Hirudinida). Vestnik Zoologii, 44(4): e-33–e-36. https://doi.org/10.2478/v10058-010-0023-9
  • Opara, K. (2002). Population dynamics of Piscicola geometra (Hirudinea: Rhynchobdellida) on Oreochromis niloticus (cichlidae) cultured in a rainforest pond, South Eastern Nigeria. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 14, 536-540.
  • Saglam, N., Oguz, M. C., Celik, E.S., Doyuk, S.A., Usta, A. (2003). Pontobdella muricata and Trachelobdella lubrica (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae) on some marine fishes in the Dardanelles, Turkey. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 83, 1315-1316. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315403008749
  • Sawyer, R.T., Lawler, A.R., Overstreet, R.M. (1975). Marine Leeches of the Eastern United States and the Gulf of Mexico with a Key to the Species. Journal of Natural History, 9(6), 633-667. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222937500770531
  • Schulz, C.A., Thomas, M.V., Fitzgerald, S., Faisal, M. (2011). Leeches (Annelida: Hirudinida) Parasitizing Fish of Lake St. Clair, Michigan, U.S.A. Comparative Parasitology, 78(1), 73-83. https://doi.org/10.1654/4439.1
  • Volonterio, O., López-de León, E., de León, R.P. (2004). Infestation dynamics and histopathology of two species of freshwater leeches (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae) on teleost fish from Uruguay. Comparative Parasitology, 71(1), 21-28. https://doi.org/10.1654/4087
  • Ernest, H., Williams, J. R., Bunkley-Williams, L., Burreson, E. M. (1994). Some New Records of Marine and Freshwater Leeches from Caribbean, Southeastern U.S.A., Eastern Pacific, and Okinawan Animals. The Helminthological Society of Washington, 61(1), 133-138.
  • Yanar, A., Özak, A. A., Başusta, N. (2019). A new record of Pontobdella muricata (Annelida: Hirudinea: Piscicolidae) from Iskenderun Bay, northeastern Mediterranean Turkey. Biharean Biologist, 13(1), 42-43.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Zoology (Other)
Journal Section Short Communication
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Souhila Ramdanı 0000-0003-4436-2620

Early Pub Date October 11, 2023
Publication Date October 11, 2023
Submission Date June 21, 2023
Published in Issue Year 2023

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APA Ramdanı, S. (2023). The first report and a new host record of leech fish, Trachelobdella lubrica (Grube, 1840) infecting the gills of Sparus aurata (Linnaeus, 1758) from the Gulf of Bejaia, Algeria. Aquatic Research, 6(4), 271-275. https://doi.org/10.3153/AR23026

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