تسجيل اولي لانواع جنس Chaetomiumعلى روث بعض الثدييات الاليفة في محافظة اللاذقية

The study was conducted on14 dungsamples of five species ofmammal pets during 2012 – 2013.The dung substrateswerecultured in laboratory by using moist chamber technique. Nine species were isolated andclassified dependingontaxonomical characters: Chaetomium bostrychodes, C.murorum, C.cochliodes, C.globosum, C.crispatum, C.aterrimum, C.subspirilliferum, C.gangligerum, and Chaetomiumsp. The study showed that goat dung sampleswerethe most richer with species (34.48%), followed bysheep dung (24.13%), Rabbit dung(20.68%), cow dung (13.79%), whilehorsedungsamples weretheleastricher (6.89%) of the totalsamplesstudied,Chaetomium bostrychodes, and C.murorumwere the most common species(27.58%).Theprevious speciesare the first recordedon dungin Syria.