Cypriniformes, which exhibit a wide geographical distribution, are the most species-rich
group of freshwater fishes. Despite considerable research on their parasites, no reliable …

Fish parasitology has a long tradition in North America and numerous parasitologists have
contributed considerably to the current knowledge of the diversity and biology of protistan …

Some taxonomic groups are less amenable to mitochondrial DNA barcoding than others.
Due to the paucity of molecular information of understudied groups and the huge molecular …

Despite the high diversity of freshwater fishes in the Nearctic region, little is known about the
composition of their parasite communities. We addressed the diversity of viviparous …

Background Monogenean flatworms are the main ectoparasites of fishes. Representatives of
the species-rich families Gyrodactylidae and Dactylogyridae, especially those infecting …

The present study describes Demidospermus spirophallus n. sp. and Demidospermus
prolixus n. sp.(Monogenea, Dactylogyridae) from the siluriform catfish Loricaria prolixa …

Knowledge on the diversity of parasitic flatworms of Western Mediterranean cyprinids is
extremely scarce. In the present study, we parasitologically investigated 12 cyprinid species …

Background. Anchors are one of the important attachment appendages for monogenean
parasites. Common descent and evolutionary processes have left their mark on anchor …

New findings on Gyrodactylus spp. parasitising African cichlids in southern Africa are
presented, comprising data from Zimbabwe and South Africa. Morphometry of opisthaptoral …

Eight new species of Gyrodactylus are described from Poecilia mexicana, Poeciliopsis
gracilis, Pseudoxiphophorus bimaculatus [syn.= Heterandria bimaculata], and Xiphophorus …