Yaroslav Syrota

A lack of accurate information on the prevalence and distribution of Anoplocephala spp. infections on horse farms has led to insufficient attention to tapeworm control and increasing horse anoplocephaloses in Europe. Our study aimed to examine the occurrence of Anoplocephala spp. infection using coprological, serum- and saliva-based antibody detect...

Patterns of the rockcod Notothenia coriiceps infection with helminths were analysed to understand the dynamics of parasite communities in this Antarctic fish and to test their stability over time. The study was performed using helminth samples collected from 183 N. coriiceps in 2014–2015 and 2020–2021 in the vicinity of the Ukrainian Antarctic stat...

Introduction: Species of Fimbriaria are common tapeworms of ducks (Anseriformes). In this study, cestode specimens identified as F. fasciolaris, F. czaplinskii and F. teresae from the Helminthological Collection of IZSHK are re-examined and newly collected cestodes of the genus Fimbriaria from various anseriform birds in Ukraine are examined. Met...

Patterns of the rockcod Notothenia coriiceps infection with helminths were analysed to understand the dynamics of helminth communities in Antarctic fish and to test their stability over time. The study was performed using helminth samples (30,951 specimens in total) collected from 183 N. coriiceps in 2014–2015 and 2020–2021 in the vicinity of the U...

The Diplostomidae Poirier, 1886 is a large, globally distributed family of digeneans parasitic in intestines of their definitive hosts. Diplostomum and Tylodelphys spp. are broadly distributed, commonly reported, and the most often sequenced diplostomid genera. The majority of published DNA sequences from these genera originated from larval stages...

Here, we examined 70 samples of foxes from western Ukraine to determine their diet composition and assess the impacts of several factors on a diet. We analysed fox faeces (22 items) and the stomach contents (48 items) of individual animals killed via hunting or traffic accident. The diet of the red fox included plants (24 items) and animals (24 ite...

This survey analysed the helminth communities associated with three Ukrainian heron species (A. cinerea, A. purpurea, Nycticorax nycticorax) collected throughout 1947–2019. The sample analysed included 128 specimens, and 55 helminth species were identified. Of these, the most diverse taxonomic group was trematodes with 29 species, followed by cesto...

IntroductionPseudocapillaria (Ichthyocapillaria) bumpi n. sp. (Nematoda: Capillariidae) is described from specimens infecting the digestive tract of the West African lungfish, Protopterus annectens (Owen) (Lepidosireniformes: Protopteridae).Methods Nematodes were collected in Karingani Game Reserve, Southern Mozambique and studied using light micro...

ParaSiteDB is an application for arranging and managing a parasitological collection. It has been designed to provide a user-friendly, easily manageable and searchable site and is suitable for small to bigger collections. The source code of the application is available on GitHub: https://github.com/goobar4/aacrg. The demonstration version of the...

IntroductionThe nematode Spiroxys ankarafantsika was described parasitising freshwater turtles Pelusios castanoides and Pelomedusa subrufra from Madagascar. During parasitological surveys at different localities in Mozambique and South Africa the species was recovered from the digestive tract of Pelusios sinuatus, P. subniger and P. castanoides.Met...

Helminth fauna of aquatic birds, in general, is well-studied on the territory of Ukraine. However, despite the fact that the data on the helminths of rare aquatic birds are dispersed in numerous faunistic publications, there are no separate reports on this particular group of hosts. The present survey generalizes all available information on the he...

This data is a supplement for the article: Review of helminths from rare aquatic birds in Ukraine

The article presents the records and brief descriptions of trematodes Brachylaima fuscata (Rudolphi, 1819), Prosthogonimus cuneatus (Rudolphi, 1809), Prosthogonimus ovatus (Rudolphi, 1803), and a nematode Cardiofilaria pavlovskyi Ström, 1937 based on the specimens collected from four corncrakes, Crex crex Linnaeus examined on the territory of Ukrai...

Lead (Pb) pollution of aquatic habitats is a known threat to vertebrate health. Depending on Pb dosage, resulting symptoms can be chronic (sublethal) or acute (lethal). While acute exposure results in death of the animal, chronic sublethal exposure can also have consequences, reproduction, antioxidant defense and immunity being the most affected tr...

Thirty-eight Mallards were collected on the territory of Ukrainian Polissia to study the fauna of their gastro-intestinal helminths. Materials were collected in 1998-2000, 2014 and 2016 on the territory of Volyn and Chernihiv Regions. In total, 33 species of helminths were found. Th e prevalence of cestode infection was 78.9 %. We found 18 cestode...

First Record of Dicheilonema ciconiae (Nematoda, Diplotriaenoidea) from Ciconia nigra (Aves, Ciconiidae) in Ukraine. Syrota, Ya. Yu., Kuzmin, Yu. I., Lyaskivskiy, V. N., Kobylinsky, V. V., Vasylkivska, I. B. — Five specimens of a parasitic nematode Dicheilonema ciconiae (Schrank, 1788) were collected from black stork, Ciconia nigra Linnaeus, in Kyi...

Finding of Two Species from the Tribe Synhimantea (Nematoda, Acuariidae) in the Kyiv Zoological Park. Syrota, Ya. Yu., Kharchenko, V. O., Lyaskivskiy, V. N., Kobylinsky, V. V., Vasylkivska, I. B. - The article presents the description of Desportesius sagitattus (Rudolphi, 1809) and Dispharynx nasuta (Rudolphi, 1819) based on original studies of the...

The fauna of helminths of hydrophilic birds was subject of many works in Ukraine. But the most of investigators dealt with helminth fauna of waterfowls in general. And only few works were dedicated to the parasitic nematodes. There are registered 81 species of helminths on Ukraine and 36 species of nematode of hydrophilic bird for Polissya (23 spec...