The Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus) is one of usual wild game-birds in Ukraine. The
most complete data on helminth fauna of this bird in the country are generalized in a
monograph by Smogorzhevskaya (1976). This book provides consolidated information on
helminth of all species of birds from different regions of Ukraine studied at that time.
However, works on helminths of birds in Polissia are relatively rare. The fragmentary data on
helminth fauna of Mallard from Polissia were published by Vasylevska (1956). More detailed …

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 species:
Aploparaksis furcigera, Cloacotaenia megalops, Dicranotaenia coronula, Diorchis
acuminatus, D. stefanskii, Fimbriaria fasciolaris, F. teresae, Microsomacanthus compressa …