A survey of the presence of metacercariae in Carangoides malabaricus (local name : Talakitok) and Auxis rochei (local name : Tulingan) from Lipa City, Batangas

• Main Author: Dimayuga, Vicente L.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1997
• Subjects: Fishes > Infections; Fishes > Parasites; Worms; Intestinal and parasitic
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/1431
• Institution: De La Salle University

Two fish species consisting of 30 fish samples per species were examined for the presence of metacercariae. These two species were Carangoides malabaricus ( talakitok ) and Auxis rochei ( tulingan ). The compression and digestion methods were utilized to determine the infection rate in the fins and...