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    Sea lice (Copepoda: Caligidae) from South Africa, with descriptions of two new species of Caligus

    Thirteen species of sea lice (family Caligidae) are reported from a range of elasmobranch and actinopterygian fishes caught off South Africa or obtained from public aquaria in South Africa. Two new species of Cal...

    Polly M. Hayes, Kevin W. Christison, David B. Vaughan in Systematic Parasitology (2021)

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    New monogeneans from the bathydemersal southern African endemic catshark, Holohalaelurus regani (Gilchrist, 1922)

    The catshark genus Holohalaelurus Fowler is currently represented by five species distributed off the southern and eastern parts of the African coast. Very few parasitological records exist for any of these five ...

    David B. Vaughan, Kevin W. Christison, Haakon Hansen in Systematic Parasitology (2021)

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    Anoplodiscus Sonsino, 1890 (Monogenea: Anoplodiscidae): a new Australian species, and the first African record from South African hosts

    Species of Anoplodiscus Sonsino, 1890 were previously only known from host members of Sparidae. A new species, Anoplodiscus hutsonae n. sp. is proposed for museum specimens originally collected from species of Sc...

    David B. Vaughan, Kevin W. Christison in Systematic Parasitology (2017)

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    Description of three new species of Gyrodactylus von Nordmann, 1832 (Monogenea) parasitising Oreochromis niloticus niloticus (L.) and O. mossambicus (Peters) (Cichlidae)

    Three new species of Gyrodactylus are described from two species of Oreochromis (Cichlidae): Gyrodactylus hildae sp. nov. from the Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus niloticus, and from an unconfirmed cichlid in...

    Adriana García-Vásquez, Haakon Hansen, Kevin W. Christison in Acta Parasitologica (2011)

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    Gyrodactylids (Gyrodactylidae, Monogenea) infecting Oreochromis niloticus niloticus (L.) and O. mossambicus (Peters) (Cichlidae): A pan-global survey

    Gyrodactylus infections in intensively-reared populations of Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus niloticus, have been associated world-wide with high mortalities of juvenile fish. In this study, 26 populations of...

    Adriana García-Vásquez, Haakon Hansen, Kevin W. Christison in Acta Parasitologica (2010)

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    Neoechinorhynchus (Neoechinorhynchus) dorsovaginatus n. sp.(Acanthocephala: Neoechinorhynchidae) from the dusky kob Argyrosomus japonicus (Sciaenidae) on the southern coast of South Africa

    Neoechinorhynchus (Neoechinorhynchus) dorsovaginatus n. sp. (Acanthocephala: Neoechinorhynchidae) is described from the dusky kob, Argyrosomus japonicus (Temminck & Schlegel) from the southern coast of South Afri...

    Omar M. Amin, Kevin W. Christison in Systematic Parasitology (2005)

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    Gyrodactylus thlapin. sp. (Monogenea) from Pseudocrenilabrus philander philander (Weber) (Cichlidae) in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

    A new species of Gyrodactylus von Nordmann, 1832 and the first monogenean reported from Botswana is described from the cichlid Pseudocrenilabrus philander philander,bringing the number of gyrodactylids described ...

    Kevin W. Christison, Andrew P. Shinn, Jo G. van As in Systematic Parasitology (2005)