Journal
JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES
Volume 26, Issue 7, Pages 401-406Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2761.2003.00476.x
Keywords
anaemia; Ceratothoa oestroides; Dicentrarchus labrax; feeding; isopoda
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The effects of the fish parasitic isopod, Ceratothoa oestroides (Risso), on haematological parameters of its cage-cultured sea bass host, Dicentrarchus labrax (L.), were studied. Analyses of blood parameters (cell counts, haemoglobin content and haematocrit) were carried out on parasitized and unparasitized sea bass from a fish farm in Turkey. Parasitized fish had significantly lowered erythrocyte counts, haematocrit and haemoglobin values and significantly increased leucocyte counts. Blood feeding by C. oestroides thus produces a post-haemorrhagic anaemia and the fish appear to mount an immune response to the presence of parasites.
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