Ectoparasites of wild birds in Egypt

The authors tried to trace incidence of ectoparasites of wild birds in Egypt. The subjects hunted were 72 wild birds from Abu-Rawash area Giza Province all over a year. The infestation rate of heron by ectoparasites was high [44. 4%] then followed by egyptian kestrel [30.77%] and little owl [30%] and low in Egypt kite [35%] and barn owl [22.22%]. Six species from lice found as the ectoparasites of wold birds which were Liperus caponis, Cuclotogaster heterographus, Menopon gallinae, Menacanthus stramineus Trinoton sp., lastly Ricinus sp. and one species from mites was found Dermanyssus gallinae

Observation in two filariid microfilaria from two Egyptian wild birds

Two new species of microfilariae, from two Egyptian wild birds [Athene noctua and Ardeola ibis ibis] were illustrated, described and differentiated from other related species. The pathogenesis of one of them in the skin and internal organs of its host Athene noctua was studied

Entobdella aegyptiacus as a new species of monogenesis gill trematode of marine fish in Egypt

60 marine fish belonging to two species [Epinephalus gigas and Morone labrax] were collected from the Mediterranean sea at Port Said area. The monogentic trematode from gill was collected, examined and identified. The worker considered the worm in this study as a new species of genus Entobdella and named Entobdella aegyptiacus as a new species in Egypt

Some fish trematodes from the Mediterranean Sea

Three digenetic trematodes were collected from marine fish. Opishthorchis gomtii and schikhobalotrema acutum were collected from the intestine of Mugil cephalus. Xenopera maculates was collected from the intestine of Mullus barbatus