Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Nina Vancheva

Member for

9 years 8 months

Animal Diversity and Resources

Biodiversity and Ecology of Parasites

Taxonomy, Evolution and Ecology of Helminths

<strong>e-mail:</strong>
nivan@abv.bg

<strong>Date and place of birth:</strong>
1990, June 6
Sofia, Bulgaria

<strong>Education:</strong>
<ul>
<li>2015 MSc in Parasitology, Faculty of Biology, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski</li>
<li>2013 BSc in Biology, Faculty of Biology, Sofia University St, Kliment Ohridski</li>
</ul>

Taxonomy and evolution of gyrodactylid parasites

Vancheva N., Georgiev B.B. 2025. The genus <i>Gyrodactylus</i> von Nordman, 1832 (Monopisthocotyla: Gyrodactylidae) from freshwater fishes in Bulgaria: A museum-based revision. Parasitologia 5: 61 https://doi.org/10.3390/parasitologia5040061

Vancheva N., Georgiev B.B. 2025. The first record of <i>Gyrodactylus perccotti</i> Ergens & Yukhimenko, 1973 (Monopisthocotyla: Gyrodactylidae), a parasite of the alien Chinese sleeper (<i>Perccottus glenii</i> Dybowski, 1877), in Bulgaria. Acta Parasitologica 70: 182 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11686-025-01120-0

Vancheva N., Bobeva A., Pehlivanov L., Stefanov T., Georgiev B. B. 2020. Alien parasites on an alien fish species: monogeneans from the black bullhead Ameiurus melas (Siluriformes) in the Lake Srebarna Biosphere Reserve, Bulgaria, with the first record of <i>Gyrodactylus nebulosus</i> in the Palaearctic. Parasitology Research, 119-7