Fish parasite fauna of the middle reaches of the Lena river and its tributaries under growing man-caused impact

• Published in: RUDN Journal of Ecology and Life Safety
• Main Authors: Terenty Afanasevich Platonov, Natalia Vasilevna Kuzmina, Ayan Nikolaevich Nyukkanov, Galina Petrovna Protodyakonova
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2018
• Subjects: pollutants; ecosystem; parasitofauna; diphyllobothriasis; species of fish; nematodes; crustaceans; cestodes; trienophorosis; protozoa; myxosporidia; envir; geo; Aldan; lena river
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.22363/2313-2310-2018-26-2-185-194; https://doaj.org/article/6fe0c49d65f34f3ebdf3cdf7bbbb3182

On the middle course of the Lena river there is a large extent of infection of fish with parasites with a complex development cycle. Infection of the pike with plerocercoids of Diphyllobothrium latum is caused by contamination with communal sewage. In the parasitofauna of the fish of the Vilyui rive...