A contribution to the knowledge of the helminthofauna of fishes from the coastal waters of the mid-Dalmatian insular area of the Adriatic Sea

Abstract

       A total of 161 fish specimens representing 24 fish spe­cies and subspecies from the coastal area of the insular middle Dalmatia were examined and 10 parasite endohel­minth species, belonging to Nematoda and Trematoda, recor­ded. Of the fish examined, 70.8%, that is 26.1% of indi­viduals, carried endohelminths. The most common endohel­minths were Contracaecum fabri and C. aduncum which occurred in the 45.2% of the infected fish.