Intestinal helminths from grey mullets, Mugil capito Cuv. and M. cephalus L., of Lake Borullus, A.R.E.

Helminthological examination of grey mullets, Mugil capito Cuv. and M. cephalus L. from brackish Lake Borullus in the Nile Delta in the Lower Egypt revealed that these fishes are infected with two species of digenetic trematodes, Haplosplanchnus pachystoma (Eysenhardt, 1829) and Saccocoelium obesum Loos, 1902 and one acanthocephalan species, Neoechinorhynchus agilis (Rudolphi, 1819). On comparing the incidence and intensity of infection of individual fish samples it was found that after migration from the sea to the lake the grey mullets lose gradually their intestinal trematodes.