Abundance and Distribution of Helminth Parasites in The Fishes of Sone Beel, The Biggest Wetland in Assam

Romen Singh Ngasepam; Devashish Kar

Volume : III, Issue : XII, December - 2014

Abundance and Distribution of Helminth Parasites in The Fishes of Sone Beel, The Biggest Wetland in Assam

Romen Singh Ngasepam, Devashish Kar

Abstract :

The present study was made on helminth fauna of freshwater fishes of Sone Beel located in Karimganj, District of Assam. The study was conducted between January 2012 to December 2012 and found four groups of parasites in 700 fishes belonging to 42 species to 27 genera, 18 families and 8 orders. Among the fishes, 111 were found to be infected with helminth parasites belonging to four different groups in which 40 parasites belong to class Acanthocephala, 2 parasites to class Cestoda, 66 to class Trematoda and 11 parasites belonged to class Nematoda. Among the fish parasites depicted some are widely distributed while some others are endemic.