Isolating and recording 7 species of fungi associated with the Eastern River Shrimp Macrobrachium nipponense (De Haan, 1849) of the fish ponds in the Garmat Ali campus ,Basra-Iraq

Abstract

Four different ways, were used to isolating the fungi from the shrimp Macrobrachium nipponense collected from the earthen ponds in Garmat Ali campus ,Basrah / Iraq, during the period of March to April 2013. Seven species have been diagnosed of Aspergillus flavus , A.niger, Aspergillus sp., A.terreus , Alternaria sp., Penicillium notatum and P. chrysogenum belong three genus of the fungus Aspergillus ,Alternaria and Penicillium, and differences were found in the number of isolates of each fungi species among March and April. The study confirmed that the presence of pathological fungi Aspergillus and Penicillium have a large impact on shrimp diseases fungal infection, especially when the culture conditions are not appropriate.