Prevelance of Lyperosomum longicauda Rudolphi, 1809 | Research Paper published by JBES Journals

 

Mr. Hakim Ali Sahito, Wali Muhammad Mangrio, Tasneem Kousar, Zafar Hussain Shah, from the Department of Zoology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur Mir’s, Sindh, Pakistan, and Mr. Faheem Ahmed Jatoi, from the Department of Physical Education and Sports, Faculty of Physical Sciences, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur Mir’s, Sindh, wrote a research paper entitled “Prevelance of Lyperosomum longicauda Rudolphi, 1809 (Dicrocoeliioidae: Trematoda) from the gallbladder of Turdoides stirata (Aves: Leiothrichidae) at Sindh, Pakistan.” This research work was published by the Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences | JBES under volume 17, July issue 2020. Let’s get some knowledge about this research.

 Abstract

The present findings are related to report the helminth parasitic infection in Jungle babbler, at District: Naushahro Feroze. Host species were investigated from the month of June to August, 2018. These birds are non-migratory, former friendly, earth colored sibling in habbit but internal visceral organs consisting intensity of parasites. Total (n=16) of T. striata were captured and disected on a weekly basis under laboratory conditions at Department of Zoology, SALU-Khairpur. All found with helminth population of digenean trematode but high prevalence was found in the month of June followed by other months. During surgical examination (n=44) specimens were recovered in the gall bladder of the host, morphologically having tapered ends at terminal body point, forebody is shorter then hind body, protrusible rounded oral suckers but ventral suckers are rounded, maximum width at post-acetabular region, oval-shaped pharynx, short esophagus, diverticular caeca, median-shaped ovary and oblique testes, un-equal bands of lateral vitellaria and dark brown coloured eggs. These features of the worms resemble already identified as; L. longicauda hence; identified as such. This species of fluke was first time recovered from present host and result of present study revealed that it is a new host record from upper Sindh.

 

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 Introduction

The birds are great valuable gift of almighty Allah, their colourful plumage attract the people, they are charming as sweet voices produce during early morning time, they having high economic value and serve as plant pollinators (Elon and Fred, 1924), found close association with humans. 

Avifauna having the potentional power to fly thousands of the miles within few days and all species having own unique appearance, ecology, habitat, distributaries and habits (Whelan et al., 2008). Avifauna is valuable in respect of mankind as they feed over variety of pest insects, use seed weeds, agricultural pests but abundance population of helminth parasites greatly harm their body and create clinical signs (Soulsby, 1968). The high density of birds population, wet litter, contaminated food particles, rough ventilation, mismanagement etc., are the causative reasons by which helminth parsites increase in their number and enhance their progeny (Nadeem et al., 2007). 

The birds are reducing day by day due to urbanization, loss of habitat, climatic changes and vast application of pesticides also birds harbor a diversity of both endoparasites and ectoparasites cause deadly disease to their hosts and propagate to neighbouring livelihood (Akcakaya, 1990). 

Jungle babbler found in Indian Sub-continent tropical and sub-tropical regions (Ripley, 1969), commonly search their food in a group manner being an insectivorous search mostly; Helicoverpa armigra on croplands and are also known as voracious feeder of insect pests (Gaston, 1977) but these species of hosts are weaker in their flight. Their body is dirty and eyes in yellow-colored, beneficial for agro-ecosystem due to feeding of variety of insect matters (Andrew and Naik, 1965) and wings are shortly rounded (Ali and Ripley, 1996). Being scavengers they having positive role to control the population of insect pests (Chittampalli and Bhatkhande, 1993). Aves are a carrier of a certain zoonotic lethal disease (Hubalek, 2004), but majority of flukes hit kidney and gallbladder of the Aves (Kanev et al., 2002). 

Trematodes parasites especially threat to Passeriformes caused significant living losses (Chung et al., 1995). The trematode belongs to family Dicrocoeliioidae, Eucotylidae and Rencicolidae cause great harm to the kidney and gall bladder, bile duct of the wild and domestic aves (Kanev et al., 2002). Jungle babbler is being omnivorous to their feeding behaviour bare parasitic worms and infestation depends availability of food source (Kyi and Poon, 1987). T. striata severely infected by numerous fluctuations of internal visceral helminths. In Pakistan there is no research documentary on the systematic studies of helminth parasites on T. striata and the main aim and motivation of present research work to findout the helminthological burden, parasitic identification and formulate systematic studies due to this reason T. straita agro-friendly species of bird selected as model for research and authors became strongly wilful on carryout experimental research to find out the prevalence of parasites from the internal visceral organs of host species.

Original Source of the Articles: J. Bio. Env. Sci. 17(1), 93-101, July 2020.

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