Hamacreadium mutabile, Linton 1910, Digentic trematode from liver of fresh water fish, Clarias lazera as a new host and site

Document Type : Original Article

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Parasitology Departement,Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,Suez Canal University.

Abstract

Examination of 100 liver of freshwater fish, Clarias lazera ,from Ismailia Province, revealed that 2 out of 100 (2%) examined fish were infected with the digentic trematode, Hamacreadium mutabile.It is the first record from freshwater fish, Clarias lazera and first record from the liver. Hamacreadium mutabile characterized by large well developed ventral sucker, oblique, lobed testes and ovary, follicular vitelline gland extend from the level of ventral sucker to the posterior end of the body. 

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