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Is Water Pollution the Only Cause of Abnormalities of the Attachment Clamps of Monogeneans (Diplozoidae), a Parasite of Freshwater Fishes?

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A comparative study of the haptoral morphology of three diplozoon species (Monogenea: Diplozoidae) from the gills of fish from polluted water bodies (the Obʼ River and Rybinsk Reservoir, Russia) and the unpolluted Tana Lake (Africa) has been carried out. An examination of the haptors of Paradiplozoon megan (Bychowsky et Nagibina, 1959) from ide captured in the Obʼ River and Rybinsk Reservoir and Diplozoon paradoxum von Nordmann, 1832 from bream from the same water bodies has revealed a large number of abnormalities in the attachment clamps. Different abnormalities in the structure of attachment clamps have also been found in Paradiplozoon spp. from barbels from Lake Tana, which is not exposed to industrial pollution. According to the literature data, abnormalities in the haptor structure have also been found in diplozoons from relatively clean water bodies. Abnormalities, such as the formation of rudiments of the fifth and sixth clamps, have been recorded only in clean water bodies. It is hypothesized that the pollution of water bodies is not the main cause of the formation of abnormalities in the structure of clamps; there is also a natural (“background”) frequency of occurrence of abnormalities in diplozoons.

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This study was supported by the government of Tyumen oblast as part of project no. 89-DON (2) of the West Siberian Interregional Scientific and Educational Center.

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Zhokhov, A.E., Pugacheva, M.N. & Zhigileva, O.N. Is Water Pollution the Only Cause of Abnormalities of the Attachment Clamps of Monogeneans (Diplozoidae), a Parasite of Freshwater Fishes?. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 15, 459–466 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425522050134

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