Authors

F ZEDAM¹; F Tazerouti¹;  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 Digeneans flatworm parasites of fishes off Algeria, 30 specimens of Xyrichthys novaculaLinnaeus, 1758 collected off Algeria, southwestern Mediterranean. The digestive tube was carefully examined for the presence of parasitic Digeneans. The species belongs to the family Derogenidae Nicoll, 1910, a taxonomic study of Digenea of the genus Derogenes Lühe, 1900 include the species Derogenes minor Looss, 1901 based on morphological data. Derogenes minor Looss, 1901 is reported from the gall bladder of a new host Xyrichthys novacula Linnaeus, 1758 the first records species off the Algeria coast