The Parasite Fauna of the Round Goby Neogobius melanostomus (Perciformes, Gobiidae) in the Kuybyshev Reservoir (Middle Volga)
O. V. Mineevaa, * and D. Yu. Semenovb, **
aInstitute of Ecology of the Volga River Basin, Samara Federal Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Togliatti, 445003 Russia
bUlyanovsk State University, Ulyanovsk, 432017 Russia
Correspondence to: *e-mail: ksukala@mail.ru
Correspondence to: **e-mail: perchsdj@list.ru
Received 12 March, 2020
Abstract—The fauna of multicellular parasites of the round goby Neogobius melanostomus (Pallas, 1814) was studied in three reaches of the Kuybyshev Reservoir. Ten species and forms of parasites unidentified to species level were found, including metacercariae Holostephanus cobitidis and Apatemon gracilis that are specific to the family Gobiidae. The alien trematode Nicolla skrjabini is the dominant species in the parasite fauna of the round goby in the studied reservoir; its native range is restricted to the rivers of the Sea of Azov and Black Sea basin.
Keywords: round goby, parasite fauna, infestation, Kuybyshev Reservoir
DOI: 10.1134/S2075111721010094