We discuss geographical distribution and phylogeny of Dactylogyridea (Monogenea)
parasitizing Cichlidae to elucidate their hosts′ history. Although mesoparasitic Monogenea …

Marine biodiversity reaches its pinnacle in the tropical Indo-Pacific region, with high levels of
both species richness and endemism, especially in coral reef habitats. While this pattern of …

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 …

Cichlidogyrus (including Scutogyrus) is the most speciose dactylogyridean monogenean
genus known from African and Levantine cichlid fishes (Cichlidae). While its taxonomy is …

Abstract Cichlidogyrus spp.(Monogenea, Ancyrocephalidae) are common parasites of
cichlid fishes from Africa and the Levant. They display important morphological variation in …

Lake Tanganyika is well-known for its high species-richness and rapid radiation processes.
Its assemblage of cichlid fishes recently gained momentum as a framework to study parasite …

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 three new species of monogenean parasites of characid fishes
from the Upper Paraná River basin, Brazil: Characithecium paranapanemense n. sp. on …

Seven new species of Urocleidoides from the gills and skin of nine Neotropical fish hosts
(Anostomidae, Parodontidae, and Gymnotidae) are described: Urocleidoides digitabulum n …

Molecular data from the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (cox1) mitochondrial DNA gene and
the second internal transcribed spacer (ITS2) nuclear rDNA region were used to test the …