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Nico J. Smit
Animal Ecology
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Open AccessA new species of Siphoderina Manter, 1934 (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae) infecting the Dory Snapper Lutjanus fulviflamma (Teleostei: Lutjanidae) from the east coast of South Africa
Parasitological assessment of marine fishes at Sodwana Bay in the iSimangaliso Marine Protected Area on the east coast of South Africa revealed a new species of cryptogonimid trematode infecting the pyloric ca...
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A new species of Phoreiobothrium Linton, 1889 (Cestoda: Onchoproteocephalidea) from the spinner shark, Carcharhinus brevipinna (Valenciennes) off the coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
The extreme sparsity of collection efforts in many parts of the word, including southern Africa, leaves a vast hidden diversity of marine cestode species, such as species of Phoreiobothrium. The examination of a ...
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Morphological and molecular characterisation of Alella igillimpethu n. sp. (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Lernaeopodidae) parasitising the southern African endemic intertidal klipfish, Clinus superciliosus
Lernaeopodidae Milne Edwards, 1840, is an ecological and economically important fish parasite family of copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda), consisting of 48 genera with 334 valid species. To date, approximately 17...
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Open AccessSea 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...
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Introduction to Parasitic Crustacea: State of Knowledge and Future Trends
Parasitic crustaceans are globally considered to be some of the most successful and diverse parasites. They are ubiquitous in the aquatic environment and are known to occur on a wide range of vertebrate and in...
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Parasitic Crustacea as Vectors
In assessing the role of parasitic crustaceans as vectors, it is interesting to note that the relevant literature appears to be limited to a handful of species. Isopods of the genus Gnathia (family Gnathiidae) li...
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Rediscovery of Chonopeltis meridionalis Fryer, 1964 (Crustacea: Branchiura) from Labeo rosae Steindachner in the River Olifants, Mpumalanga, and the taxonomic status of C. victori Avenant-Oldewage, 1991 and C. koki Van As, 1992
Chonopeltis Thiele, 1900 presently comprises 14 species, it is endemic to Africa and its species show a high degree of host-specificity towards fish families and in some cases, individual...
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Trematode diversity in freshwater fishes of the Globe I: ‘Old World’
In this paper, we review, continent by continent, the trematode fauna of freshwater fishes of the ‘Old World’, a vast area consisting of the Palaearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental and Australasian zoogeographical re...
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Gnathia trimaculata n. sp. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Gnathiidae), an ectoparasite found parasitising requiem sharks from off Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Gnathia trimaculata n. sp. is described from one black tip reef shark Carcharinus melanopterus Quoy & Gaimard and four grey reef sharks C. amblyrhynchos Bleeker collected off Lizard Islan...
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Redescription of Argulus multipocula Barnard, 1955 (Crustacea: Branchiura) collected on the west coast of SouthAfrica
Argulus multipocula Barnard, 1955 was originally described from a single female found in a littoral sample from the east coast of South Africa. We present a redescription of this species based on light and scanni...
