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Monogenoidea Communities Differ Between Male Morphotypes of Bluegill Sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus)
PurposeBluegill sunfish ( Lepomis macrochirus ) are a North American sport fish that exhibit two different male morphotypes. Alpha-males are large,...
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Taxonomic Status of Diplectanum robustitubum Wu & Li, 2003 (Monogenoidea: Diplectanidae) from the Purple-Spotted Bigeye Priacanthus tayenus (Priacanthidae) and the Description of Platycephalotrema parile n. sp. (Monogenoidea: Dactylogyridae) from the Bartail Flathead Platycephalus indicus (Platycephalidae), in the Arabian Gulf
AbstractPurple-spotted bigeyes Priacanthus tayenus Richardson (Priacanthidae) and bartail flathead Platycephalus indicus (Linnaeus)...
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A New Species of Unibarra (Monogenoidea, Dactylogyridae) Parasite of Oxydoras niger From Juruá River, State of Acre, Brazil and New Data for U. paranoplatensis
Monogenoids are ectoparasites that have a simple one-host lifecycle, high species diversity, and a relatively high host specificity. During studies...
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Description of two new species of dactylogirids (Monogenoidea: Dactylogyridae) from Mylossoma albiscopum (Cope, 1872) (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae) from the Peruvian Amazonia
IntroductionTwo new dactylogyrid monogeneans, Anacanthorus cultro n. sp. and Notozothecium palometae n. sp., are described based on specimens...
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Monogenoidea (Dactylogyridae, Gyrodactylidae) from Red River Pupfish, Cyprinodon rubrofluviatilis (Cyprinodontiformes: Cyprinodontidae), from Kansas and Texas, USA
BackgroundThe gills of Red River Pupfish ( Cyprinodon rubrofluviatilis ) collected from Kansas and Texas, U.S.A., were found to be infected with three...
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Overview of the Polystomatidae: Systematics and Classification
Polystomatids (Polystomatidae) are platyhelminthes of the class Monogenea. While monogeneans are mainly fish parasites, all polystomatids, with a...
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New Species of Rhabdosynochus Mizelle and Blatz 1941 (Monogenoidea: Diplectanidae) From the Gills of the Cultured Centropomus viridis (Perciformes) in the Mexican Eastern Tropical Pacific
PurposeThere are currently nine monogenoidean species of Rhabdosynochus infecting the gill lamellae of wild and cultured centropomid fishes from...
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Experimental evidence that host choice by parasites is age-dependent in a fish-monogenean system
Host age is known to influence the risk of parasite infection, but there is very little experimental evidence on whether parasites show preference...
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Euryhaliotrema spp. (Monogenoidea: Dactylogyridae) Parasitic on the Gill Lamellae of Perciform Fishes in Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia, with the Description of Euryhaliotrema solenophallus sp. nov. from the Silver Moony Monodactylus argenteus (Linnaeus) (Monodactylidae)
BackgroundThe present paper represented the third installment on the monogenoidean parasites collected during a workshop exploring the diversity of...
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New and previously described dactylogyrid species (Monogenoidea: Polyonchoinea) and a gastrocotylinean pre-adult (Heteronchoinea) from pomacentrid and caesionid (Perciformes) fishes from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
During a parasitological survey of perciform fishes from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, we found the following gill monogenoidean...
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A new species of Aphanoblastella Kritsky, Mendoza-Franco and Scholz, 2000 (Monogenea, Dactylogyridae) parasitic on heptapterid catfish (Siluriformes) in the Neotropical region
Aphanoblastella magna n. sp. is described from the gills of the heptapterid catfish Pimelodella avanhandavae Eigenmann, 1917 in southeastern Brazil...
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A new species of Cacatuocotyle (Monogenea, Dactylogyridae) parasitizing Astyanax spp. (Characiformes, Characidae) from Brazil, including molecular data and a key to species identification
The present study describes Cacatuocotyle papilionis n. sp. (Monogenea, Dactylogyridae) from the skin of the characid fishes Astyanax lacustris ...
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The mitochondrial genome of the egg-laying flatworm Aglaiogyrodactylus forficulatus (Platyhelminthes: Monogenoidea)
BackgroundThe rather species-poor oviparous gyrodactylids are restricted to South America. It was suggested that they have a basal position within...
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Diplectanids (Monogenea) parasitic on sciaenid fish from Peru with the proposal of Pseudorhamnocercoides n. gen., the description of Rhamnocercus dominguesi n. sp. and the redescription of Rhamnocercoides menticirrhi Luque and Iannacone, 1991
Rhamnocercoides menticirrhi Luque and Iannacone, 1991 is redescribed from newly collected material of snakehead kingcroaker Menticirrhus ophicephalus ...
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Sequencing of the complete mitochondrial genome of a fish-parasitic flatworm Paratetraonchoides inermis (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea): tRNA gene arrangement reshuffling and implications for phylogeny
BackgroundParatetraonchoides inermis (Monogenea: Tetraonchoididae) is a flatworm parasitising the gills of uranoscopid fishes. Its morphological...
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Three monogeneans parasitic on marine sciaenid fish from Peru including description of Cynoscionicola veranoi n. sp. (Microcotylidae), and redescription of C. americanus Tantaleán, Martínez and Escalante, 1987 and Hargicotyle sciaenae Oliva and Luque, 1989 (Diclidophoridae)
Cynoscionicola veranoi n. sp. (Monogenea: Microcotylidae) is described based on specimens collected from the gills of lorna drum Sciaena deliciosa ...
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Redescription of two species of Thaparocleidus (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae), with the description of T. armillatus sp. n. from Wallago attu and a phylogenetic analysis based on 18S rDNA sequences
The phylogenetic studies on monogeneans of the genus Thaparocleidus parasitizing W. attu in India was inferred from 18S rDNA gene data. Out of...
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Metazoan parasite fauna of migrating common garfish, Belone belone (L.), in the Baltic Sea
A total of 35 common garfish, Belone belone (Linnaeus, 1761), were studied for metazoan parasites on their spawning grounds in the western Baltic...
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Structure of parasites community in Chaetobranchopsis orbicularis (Cichlidae), a host from the Amazon River system in northern Brazil
The aim of this paper was to investigate the component communities of parasites in Chaetobranchopsis orbicularis from a tributary of the Amazon River...
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First report on the molecular characterization of Diaphorocleidus armillatus Jogunoori et al. 2004 (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae) infecting the gills of introduced fish, Gymnocorymbus ternetzi in India
During an investigation of the diversity of monogenean parasites in Meerut, U.P., India, the exotic freshwater fish Gymnocorymbus ternetzi was found...