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Macroparasites in intertidal gastropods on Qeshm Island, Northern Persian Gulf, Iran

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Title Macroparasites in intertidal gastropods on Qeshm Island, Northern Persian Gulf, Iran
 
Creator Karimi, Elham
Pazooki, Jamileh
Shokri, Mohammad Reza
 
Subject Gastropod
parasite
Intertidal
Rocky shore
Persian Gulf
Iran
 
Description 779-782
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:" times="" new="" roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-gb;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-GB">Present strudy consists a quantitative inventory of macroparasites in some intertidal gastropods from a rocky shore on Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf, Iran. It is examined 456 individual gastropods comprising 11 species, Among the above <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Thais savignyi</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Cronia cf konkanensis</i> were infected by parasites. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Thais savignyi</i> was infected by trematodes (12.72%), nematodes (0.21%), nematomorphs (0.21%) and copepods (0.43%)<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Cronia cf konkanensis</i> was infected by trematodes <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">solely (1.75%). Prevalence of infection in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Thais savignyi</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Cronia cf konkonensis</i> was 13.56% and <span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" times="" new="" roman","serif";="" mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:en-gb;mso-fareast-language:="" en-us;mso-bidi-language:fa"="" lang="EN-GB">1.75<span dir="RTL" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" times="" new="" roman","serif";="" mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:en-gb;mso-fareast-language:="" en-us;mso-bidi-language:fa"="" lang="EN-GB"> <span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" times="" new="" roman","serif";="" mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:en-gb;mso-fareast-language:="" en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-GB">%, respectively.</span></span></span></span></span></span>
 
Date 2011-12-24T09:05:08Z
2011-12-24T09:05:08Z
2011-12
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/13264
 
Language en_US
 
Rights <img src='http://nopr.niscair.res.in/image/cc-license-sml.png'> <a href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/in' target='_blank'>CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India</a>
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.40(6) [December 2011]