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- Title
STUDIES ON THE INTENSITY OF PALLISENTIS INFECTING SNAKEHEADS, CHANNA PUNCTATUS OF SULTANPUR DISTRICT, UTTAR PRADESH.
- Authors
Kumar, Pradeep; Malviya, Shiv Ji; Gupta, Abhishek Kumar; Yadav, Dhananjay; Reshu, Km; Jaiswal, Neeshma
- Abstract
Snakehead fishes are widely consumed throughout South East Asia, China and India because of their good taste in meat and high nutrient values such as the presence of prostaglandins, thromboxane, and Omega-6 fatty acid. Parasites are one of the most serious limiting factors in aquaculture. Parasite Pallisentis were commonly found in the freshwater perciform fish family Channidae. In this present study, fifteen hundred seventy specimens of Channa punctatus were examined for parasitic Pallisentis fauna, and out of this thirty-seven specimens were found to be infected with Acanthocephala. All parasitic infections observed and recorded in the present study were restricted to the intestine of the fish. The male specimens show a higher prevalence of about 69.44% than the female specimens only 63.15. The intensity of infection in males is 3.52 and that of females is 6.08. The fish specimen with the intermediate weight group shows the highest (66.7%) prevalence of infestation. However, further study is still required to reveal many enclosed parasitic infections of fishes and their causation, particularly in this region with a high diversity of fishes. Parasitic infection constitutes significant economic losses in fish production. Parasites are one of the most serious limiting factors in aquaculture. Therefore, the present investigation has been undertaken to sort out the population dynamics of Pallisentis (Acanthocephala), in relation to host sex from freshwater fishes, Channa of Sultanpur region.
- Subjects
UTTAR Pradesh (India); SOUTHEAST Asia; PARASITIC diseases; SNAKEHEADS (Fish); OMEGA-6 fatty acids; FRESHWATER fishes; PRODUCTION losses; FISH diversity
- Publication
Journal of Experimental Zoology India, 2023, Vol 26, Issue 2, p1373
- ISSN
0972-0030
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.51470/jez.2023.26.2.1373