Stoyanov B, Mutafchiev Y & Georgiev BB 2023. Helminth Parasites of the Three-spined Stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus L., 1758 (Actinopterygii: Gasterosteidae) from a Black Sea Coastal Wetland, Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 75: 285-300. https://www.acta-zoologica-bulgarica.eu/2023/002689
Journal: Bulgarian Portal for Open Science
Year: 2023

Totally, 134 individuals of Gasterosteus aculeatus from the Lake Atanasovsko Wetland, Bulgaria, were examined for helminth parasites. Five helminth species were identified: the trematode Posthodiplostomum brevicaudatum (metacercariae), the monogenean Gyrodactylus arcuatus, the trypanorhynch cestode Progrillotia dasyatidis (plerocerci) and third-stage larvae of the ascaridoid nematodes Contracaecum sp. and Hysterothylacium sp. Of them, G. arcuatus was the most prevalent species, with prevalence (