A Comparison Study Between External Parasites that Infect Scarus Fish ( Osteichthyes ) and Carcharhinus melanopterus Fish ( Chondrichthyes ) in Red Sea Coast of Jeddah , Saudi Arabia

Published by Oriental Scientific Publishing Company © 2018 This is an Open Access article licensed under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY). *Corresponding author E-mail: dr.abakhraibah@gmail.com A Comparison Study Between External Parasites that Infect Scarus Fish (Osteichthyes) and Carcharhinus melanopterus Fish (Chondrichthyes) in Red Sea Coast of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Fish are considered an important nutritional source amongmany cultures especially in coastal areas and fish are signified from other meats due to its cheap economicalcost and digestability and the fact that it contains many essential elements like proteins, phosphorus, potassium and more.
Fish resources are considered one of the most important economical sources in kingdom of Saudi Arabia whichis a reason of why authorities are interested in establishing different fish farms and rearing different types of fish to satisfy the needs of the population.Fish from different water natures and especially in fish farms get infected with different types of external and internal parasites that can be rapidly contagious due to the fish being crowded together.This can cause major loss in the fish industry and therefore effects the fisheryre sources of a country.In addition, humans feeding on the infected fish can cause them various diseases and these parasites are known to have various impacts on the infected fishthat can lead to death of the fish.
Parasites are usually the least known component of biodiversity, although they can be considered a diverse ecosystem, if not the most, on the planet (Reaka-Kudla 1997).Parasitic diseases that infect fish are one of the most common catastrophes that effect fish growth as well as its production rate.
The Red Sea is one of the common areas of biodiversity in the world.It has a very high rate of endemism compared to adjacent marine areas (DiBattista et al. 2016).In the Red Sea, infections are intense, which is a reason of why Monogenea, parasitic Crustacea (Isopod and Copepd) and Digenetic Trematode were collected from different species of fish.
Monogenea is one of the largest classes of phylum Platyhelminthes, and they possess anterior and posterior attachment apparatus that are used for locomotion, feeding, and host-to-host transfer as well as attachment (Yamaguti 1963, Tinsley and Owen 1975, Kearn 1998).Monogenea infections are easily considered a major problem on requiem fish (Carcharhinidea) and Scarus fish, resulting in diseases and death (Rand et al. 1986, Cheung et al. 1988, Morsy et al. 2014).
The Isopoda are small diverse crustaceans that are usually found in all ecosystems (Khalaji-Pirbalouty and Bruce 2014).Marine Isopods appear on the outer body, fins, in the mouth, gill chambers, or nostrils of the hosted fish (Hoffman et al. 1998).Isopods cause major economic loss to fisheries due to killing, delaying, or damaging the fish, they can also kill or impair immature fishes which causes a lower production rate (Bunkley-Williams et al. 2006).In addition, fish population may be impacted by the secondary infections by pathogenic microbes caused by infections with the parasitic isopods (Ravichandran et al. 2009).Marine isopods are known to be poorly studied animals in many regions among the globe and some groups till this day can remain totally unidentified (El-Shahawy and Desouky 2010).This is unfortunately the situation in the Red Sea, as the parasitic isopod fauna of fishes is not studied sufficiently (Hiekal and El-Sokkary 1990).
Copepods are one of the most wide spread and abundantly present metazoans on earth (Humes 1994).They are also prevalent parasites among marine animals, fish, invertebrates and many evolutionary lineages live to varying degrees of association with invertebrates (Hardy 1970, Huys andBoxshall 1991).However, the coexistence of copepod species haven't been studied enough throughout the years (Bashirullah 2000).
The aim of the present investigation is to determine the varying types of parasites infesting gills of two different genus of fish i.e.dsx Melanopterus and Scarus fish (Family Scaridae) obtained from a fish market known as "Bangala" in the Red Sea coast of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Materials and Methods
Within this study, 33 Carcharhinus melanopterus and 30 Scarus fish were collected from Jeddah, western coast of the Saudi Arabian Red Sea. 14 male and 19 female shark fish, 20 male and 10 female Scarus fish were acquired.
Captured fishes were freshly brought to the laboratory and their sexes were determined.Skin surface, fins and gills were visually examined for any external parasites with the help of a dissecting microscope.Visceral organs of fish were slit open and their contents were collected in Petri dishes then examined under a dissecting microscope.Copepoda and Isopoda were preserved in 10% buffered formalin and cleared with lactophenol.Trematodes were preserved in formalin -alcohol -acetic acid and stained with Semichons acetic carmine stain.

Parasitological examination revealed
that Carcharhinus melanopterus under this study was contaminated with two different species of Monogenea (Erpocotyletiburonis and Dactylogyrus sp.) and two different species of Copepod (Pandarus sinuatusand Anchistrotos tangi) on their gills.Scarus fish represented one species of Isopod (Gnathisa sp.) and one species of Copepod (Hatshekia sp.) parasites on their gills (Table 1).
Of all examined sharks, 30 sharks (91%) were infected by at least one parasite.Two Monogeneans (Erpocotyletiburonis and Dactylogyrus sp.) and two copepods (Pandarus sinuatus, Anchistrotos tangi) were identified.The hemorrhagic areas on gills were examined in infected sharks resulting in a prevalence rate of infection in sharks reaching 12.12% and 9.1%, respectively by only one specimen of Monogenea and Copepod.6.1% of sharks were infected by two specimens of Monogeneans and 3.03% of sharks were infected by two specimens of copepod.9.1 % of sharks were infected by three different specimens; two Monogenea's specimens and one Copepod's specimen (Table 2).On the other hand, 13 Scarus fish (43.33%) were infected by only one parasite.One Copepod (Hatshekia sp.) and one Isopod (Praniza larva of Gnathisasp) were identified (Table 2).Only 3 female sharks (9%) have shown any infection.However, all female Scarus fish of Jeddah were not infested.Both male sharks (100%) and male Scarus fish (65%) represent parasite infection.The two different genuses of fish were infected by copepod parasites, but with different specimens.

discussion
The present study, up to our knowledge, is the first done in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea coast, to show the parasitic behavior in two different genuses of fish; Carcharhinus melanopterus and Scarusfish.
Distinct variation in composition of the parasites was recorded in the two different fish species.In this study, the examined Carcharhinus Melanopterus were infested by Monogenea which was found on the gills of their host (Suriano 1981).Monogeneans are generally known to be found on the gills but they can also inhabit the nasal cavities and, in rare cases, other body parts of the host which can cause deterioration in the fish's health.(Zanolo and Hissashi Yamamura 2006).In this context, Bullard proved the presence of an infection among sharks by E. tiburonis that was intense and caused gill lesions (Bullard et al. 2001).However, this study showed that Scarus fish were not infested with parasitic crustaceans on their gills.Morsyet al. (2014) found Diplectanumh arid (Monogenea) on the gills of the examined parrot fish Scarusharid from the Red Sea in Egypt (Morsy et al. 2014).These result may be explained by the fact that most of the Monogenean gill parasites are known to be strictly specific to a particular host and that there was an accurate topographical relationship between the parasite and its host and this was probably an important factor in the mechanism of host specificity (Llewellyn 1956, Rohde 1977, Whittington et al. 2000).
Our study proved the presence of infections with Isopods in sharks during our experimental period.However, Scarus fish were infected by Praniza larva of Gnathia sp.According to our result, the parasitic crustacean praniza larva of Gnathia sp. was found in Scarusferrugineus from the Red Sea coast in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.In fact, common hosts of Isopods can be determined as surfperch, parrot fish and especially bottom fish such as lingcod, cabezon and flatfish (Kabata 1970).Knowledge of the Isopods' life cycle and their host interactions is essential to understand the factors that influence their transmission which may include vector-derived factors such as density, prevalence, duration of attachment to the host and the reproductive characteristics.
Marine fishes are usually the common hosts of Copepods, although, the copepod specimens found in sharks and Scarus fishes were different.Gills of sharks were infected by P. sinuatus and A. tangi.Many studies have been conducted over the years to study the effect of copepods that infect the gills (Benz and Dupre, 1987, Benz and Adamson, 1990, Dippenaar etal., 2008).Previous studies suggested that the parasitic copepod Anchistrotos tangi was detected on the gill of numerous and different fish (Venmathi Maran et al., 2014).Thegenus Pandarus comprises ectoparasites which are known to contaminate the skin surface and gills of sharks (Benz and Adamson, 1990).The parasitic crustacean Hastchekia manea (Copepoda) was found in gills of male Scarus fish which agreed with the results of Jones and Cabral (1990), where he found Hastchekia manea (Copepoda) on the gills of Scarus gibbus from the Southern Pacific Ocean.

conclusion
In the present study, our results showed that gills of different species of fishes were infected by different parasites.Each parasite presented an aggregated distribution pattern, which is a characteristic of parasitic systems.
Parasite prevalence is influenced by many factors, including the biological and ecological traits of the parasite (Kennedy 1977, Lewis et al. 2002), the parasite's life cycle, its reproduction as well as the ecological and hydrobiological conditions of the water.In addition, although there is evidence of monogenaes and copepods with a broad spectrum of host species, most of them show high specificity for the host, occurring on single specie or on closely related fish.The species found in this study have appeared only on the gills of their host.

acknowledgeMents
The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.

table 1 .
Distribution of different parasites in gills of Carcharhinus Melanopterus and Scarus fish

table 2 .
Comparison of different parasites infecting female and male examined Carcharhinus Melanopterus and Scarus fish in Jeddah