As part of sustainable development in the protection and development of underwater systems, a master's thesis at the University of Basra examines a phenotypic taxonomic study of worms and crustaceans
A master's thesis at the University of Basra's Faculty of Agriculture investigated the taxonomic study of monogenic worms and crustaceans parasitizing some marine fish in the Shatt al-Arab.
The thesis, submitted by master's student Musahf Hisham Al-Musawi, aims to identify monogenic worms and crustaceans as external parasites on some marine fish in the Shatt Al-Arab, and to study the external parasites in some marine fish at different stations of the Shatt Al-Arab.
The thesis concluded that the presence of monogenic worms (six species of which are new) in some species of marine fish entering the Shatt al-Arab gives an impression of the possibility of their presence and appearance in many marine fish in the river, and the most types of monogenic worms recorded in the current study appeared in the fish of the Bayah family represented by the green bayah, where three species were recorded, followed by the family of sapogiids (sabour and filamentous) with three species and 10 species of crustaceans recorded in the current study (three of them are new species, and two are a new registration in Iraq).
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