Morphological abnormalities in some dominant fish species from the polluted site of the Pozim River (Udmurt Republic, Russia)

A.K. Mineev

Samara Federal Research Scientific Center RAS, Institute of Ecology of the Volga River Basin RAS, Togliatti, 445003 Russia

E-mail: mineev7676@mail.ru

Received January 28, 2020


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DOI: 10.26907/2542-064X.2021.1.137-149

For citation: Mineev A.K. Morphological abnormalities in some dominant fish species from the polluted site of the Pozim River (Udmurt Republic, Russia). Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta. Seriya Estestvennye Nauki, 2021, vol. 163, no. 1, pp. 137–149. doi: 10.26907/2542-064X.2021.1.137-149. (In Russian)

Abstract

Morphological abnormalities resulting from the anthropogenic load on juveniles of five cyprinid species (common roach (Rutilus rutilus Linnaeus, 1758), common rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus Linnaeus, 1758), ide (Leuciscus idus Linnaeus, 1758), European chub (Leuciscus cephalus Linnaeus, 1758), and common bream (Abramis brama Linnaeus, 1758)) that are dominant in the polluted site of the Pozim River near Izhevsk were analyzed based on the data obtained in 2012. The abundance of juveniles with abnormalities was high in all the fish species examined. The number of juveniles with morphological abnormalities decreased from the early larval to late fry stages, thereby confirming that the observed malformations are lethal to fish. None of the abnormalities was confined to a particular species, and this suggests that they are not species-specific.

Keywords: anthropogenic impact, pollutants, fish juveniles, morphological abnormalities

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Fig. 1. Occurrence frequency of different groups of morphological abnormalities in fish juveniles from the polluted site of the Pozim River.

Fig. 2. 1 – common roach (stage Е), right-side view, a – pigmented tumor under the right eyeball; 2 – common roach (stage D2), left-side view, a – unpigmented left eyeball; b – unpigmented tumor behind the left eyeball; 3 – common roach (С2), left-side view, a – tumor inside the left eyeball; 4 – ide (С2), left-side view, a – notochord curvature in the truncal segment, b – notochord curvature in the caudal segment.

Fig. 3. Occurrence frequency of juveniles bearing morphological abnormalities at different development stages in the fish species studied.

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