Deep in the Kashmir Himalayas, where the River Jhelum winds from the Verinag spring through dense human settlements and farmland, a team of fish health researchers has documented something no one has recorded before in this region: a flagellate protozoan parasite known as Ichthyobodo necator clinging to the skin of a wild snowtrout, Schizothorax niger. The finding, published in Frontiers in Aquaculture, marks the first record of this notorious fish parasite in the riverine fish fauna of the Kashmir Valley, and it offers a rare, high-resolution look at how a single-celled pathogen wages war on the skin of its host.
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