First report of metazoan parasites from the cichlid Pseudocrenilabrus philander and the cyprinid Enteromius paludinosus in a South African Ramsar wetland

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TRUTER Marliese PŘIKRYLOVÁ Iva MALHERBE Wynand SMIT Nico J.

Year of publication 2016
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source African Journal of Aquatic Science
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Faculty of Science

Citation
Web http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085914.2016.1246357
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085914.2016.1246357
Field Zoology
Keywords Cyclophyllidea; Dactylogyrus; Dogielius; gill parasites; Gryporhynchidae; Gyrodactylus; Lernaea cyprinacea; Monogenea
Description Parasites of two small fish species from a Ramsar wetland in South Africa were studied in 2014–2015. The cichlid Pseudocrenilabrus philander (Weber, 1897) was parasitised by the copepod Lernaea cyprinacea Linnaeus, 1758, the monogenean Gyrodactylus thlapi Christison, Shinn & van As, 2005 and four gryporhynchid metacestode (Cyclophyllidea) species: Paradilepis scolecina (Rudolph, 1819), Paradilepis maleki Khalil, 1961, Neogryporhynchus lasiopeius Baer & Bona, 1960 and Valipora campylancristrota (Wedl, 1855). The cyprinid Enteromius paludinosus (syn. Barbus paludinosus) (Peters, 1852) was infected with the monogenean parasites Dogielius intorquens Crafford, Luus-Powell & Avenant-Oldewage, 2012, Dactylogyrus teresae Mashego, 1983, and three Dactylogyrus spp. These results represent several new locality as well as host records and further contribute information on the parasitic diversity in the Barberspan Ramsar wetland.
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