Jordan Journal of Biological Sciences Additional Records of Dactylogyrus (Monogenea) from Some

Abstract صخلملا A total of 48 fresh water fishes, belonging to four species of the family Cyprinidae (Capoeta trutta, Chalcalburnus mossulensis, Cyprinion macrostomum and Leuciscus lepidus) were collected from Darbandikhan lake, southwest Sulaimaniya city, Kurdistan region, in the north of Iraq, from March to the end of July 2008. The inspection of gills revealed the infection of these fishes with four species of monogenetic trematoda belonging to genus Dactylogyrus namely: D. alatus, D. cyprinioni, D. macracanthus and D. microcirrus. The record of these species in the present study is considered as the first record in Iraq