Recording the ciliated parasite Vorticella globularia on the gill of a new host Cyprinion macrostomum Heckel, 1843 for the first time in Iraq

Abstract

Nine Cyprinion macrostomum fishes had been collecting from fishermen that fishing by throw net from Euphrates river Al-mussab city, it had been measured and weighted, its weight 8.5-46 gm, and its length 9.5-16 cm respectively and then examined it, throughout looking for parasite infection, ciliated was arise, then start measuring it and comparing it with what the taxonomy references and what other researcher find, it look the seam with what Al-Musawi, (2016) recoded and what Warren, (1986) mentioned, then by e-mailing Pro. Dr. F.D. Mhaisen, and after he checked his Index-catalogue, Mhaisen, F.T. (2019), the parasite considered as a new intrusive on C. macrostomum fish and this fish as a new host for it in Iraq.