Over the past 80 years, tilapia have been translocated globally for aquaculture; active
production is recorded in> 124 countries. Of 7 million tonnes of tilapia produced in …

One of the most widely distributed African freshwater fish is the African sharptooth catfish
Clarias gariepinus (Burchell) that is naturally distributed in 8 of the 10 ichthyofaunal regions …

Simple Summary Fresh water Nile tilapia can be infected by numerous parasites, which can
result in high mortality and significant economic losses. The early detection of parasites and …

Abstract The Diplostomidae Poirier, 1886 is a large, globally distributed family of digeneans
parasitic in intestines of their definitive hosts. Diplostomum and Tylodelphys spp. are broadly …

Defence mechanisms of fish can be divided into specific and non-specific that act in concert
and are often interdependent. Most fish in both wild and cultured populations are vulnerable …

Africa is a continent that incubates huge inland freshwater reservoirs, representing 27% of
total world liquid freshwater, and bounded by marine blue belt. This topography makes …

When subjected to molecular study, species of digeneans believed to be cosmopolitan are
usually found to consist of complexes of species with narrower distributions. We present …

DNA sequence data became an integral part of species characterization and identification.
Still, specimens associated with a particular DNA sequence must be identified by the use of …

Freshwater biodiversity is under constant threat from a range of anthropogenic stressors.
Using South Africa's Phongolo River and floodplain (PRF) as a study case, the aim of this …

Metacercariae of trematodes from the genus Diplostomum are major helminth pathogens of
freshwater fish, infecting the eye or the brain. The taxonomy of the genus Diplostomum is …