Diagnostic and Taxonomical Study of Digestive Tract Parasites in Ducks

Found a different Parasitic worms in Digestive tract of local Ducks and Geese at Basrah Governorate from Southern Iraq, all of these parasites recorded as a first time in this region, the results showed one species of protozoa parasite coccidian sp., seven different species of digenia trematodes; Dietziella egregia, Neohematotrephus brasilianum, Hypoderaeum conoideum, Psilocollaris sp., Stromitrema sp., Michajlovia migrate, Ptychogonimus megastoma, with percentage of infection varied between 0.66 to 1.33 most of them were recorded for the first time in Iraq in these hosts which considered as a new host except been registered Hypoderaeum conoideum. Furthermore, six different species of cestode recognized: Raillietina sp., Sobolevicantus gracilis, Microsomacanthus sp., Tetrabothrius sp., Fimbriaria fasciolaris and three different species, Diorchis bulbodes , with percentage of infection 30, 19.33, 14, 10, 14, 13.93, 2.22, 6, 14.66 % respectively.