Authors
F Zedam1; 1 University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene , Algeria Discussion
Our Study, based at the Laboratory Biodiversity and Environment aims to significantly increase the number of digeneans species known from Algeria. As part of a continuing effort to explore the diversity of Digenea flatworms’ parasites of fishes off Algeria, 120 specimens of Sparus aurata Linnaeus, 1758 collected off Algeria, southwestern Mediterranean. The digestive tube was carefully examined for the presence of parasitic Digeneans. Allopodocotyle pedicellata Stossich, 1887 belongs to the family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925, a taxonomic study of this species based on morphological data. Our specimens were described here and compared morphologically and metrically to the species description by Bartoli et al, 1989. Allopodocotyle pedicellata Stossich, 1887 was found for the first found in the intestine of the type host S. aurata from Trieste, Adriatic Sea, we found it in the same host species for the first records species off the Algeria coast. Keywords: Platyhelminthes, Digenea, Opecoelidae, Allopodocotyle pedicellata, Sparus aurata. Mediterranean.
