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Hydrobiological Journal

ISSN for PRINT: 0018-8166

Institutional price:	$1994.00
Issues per year:	6

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2003, Volume39

121 pages

Issue price - $369.00

On Distribution of Fish Ligulosis in the Kiev Reservoir

O. N. Davydov
I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

L. Ya. Kurovskaya
I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

R. Ye. Bazeev
Institute of Zoology National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Kiev, Ukraine

ABSTRACT

The expansion of ligulosis among fishes in different parts of the Kiev Reservoir was studied during 1997-2001. It is shown that mean numbers of fishes (Rutilus rutilus, Blicca bjoerkna, Abramis brama, Abramis ballerus, Leucaspius delineatus) invaded by Ligula plerocercoids were 2.5 times higher in the upper part of the reservoir than that in its lower part. It has been stated the existence of an age dynamics in the intensity of infestation of white bream (Blicca bjoerkna) with Ligula, while seasonal dynamics was not detected.