Review of the metazoan parasites of the economically and ecologically important African sharptooth catfish Clarias gariepinus in Africa: Current status and novel …

M Truter, KA Hadfield, NJ Smit - Advances in Parasitology, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Trematode diversity in freshwater fishes of the Globe I:'Old World'

T Scholz, VV Besprozvannykh, TE Boutorina… - Systematic …, 2016 - Springer
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 …

A first insight into the barcodes for African diplostomids (Digenea: Diplostomidae): brain parasites in Clarias gariepinus (Siluriformes: Clariidae)

FD Chibwana, I Blasco-Costa, S Georgieva… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Diplostomid trematodes comprise a large and diverse group of widespread digeneans
whose larval stages are important parasitic pathogens that may exert serious impacts in wild …

Morphological description and molecular analyses of Tylodelphys sp.(Trematoda: Diplostomidae) newly recorded from the freshwater fish Gobiomorphus cotidianus …

I Blasco-Costa, R Poulin, B Presswell - Journal of Helminthology, 2017 - cambridge.org
Among eyeflukes, Tylodelphys Diesing, 1850 includes diverse species able to infect the
eyes, but also the brain, pericardial sac and body cavity of their second intermediate host …

Diversity of metazoan parasites of the Mozambique tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters, 1852), as indicators of pollution in the Limpopo and Olifants River …

GN Madanire-Moyo, WJ Luus-Powell… - Onderstepoort Journal of …, 2012 - journals.co.za
Aquatic systems are affected by a variety of anthropogenic activities that decrease water
quality through the introduction of organic and inorganic pollutants. To investigate the …

Completion of the life cycle of Tylodelphys mashonense (Sudarikov, 1971) (Digenea: Diplostomidae) with DNA barcodes and rDNA sequences

FD Chibwana, G Nkwengulila, SA Locke… - Parasitology …, 2015 - Springer
The life cycle of Tylodelphys mashonense (Digenea: Diplostomidae), whose metacercariae
occur in the cranial cavity of the widely cultivated catfish Clarias gariepinus, was resolved by …

Molecular and morphological characterisation of four diplostomid metacercariae infecting Tilapia sparrmanii (Perciformes: Cichlidae) in the North West Province …

C Hoogendoorn, NJ Smit, O Kudlai - Parasitology Research, 2019 - Springer
Despite their pathogenic effects on fish, the diversity of trematodes from the family
Diplostomidae remains vastly unexplored in Africa and specifically South Africa. To date …

Morphometric and molecular analyses of Tylodelphys sp. metacercariae (Digenea: Diplostomidae) from the vitreous humour of four fish species from Lake Naivasha …

EO Otachi, SA Locke, F Jirsa, C Fellner-Frank… - Journal of …, 2015 - cambridge.org
Even in the relatively well-characterized faunas of the developed world, it is difficult to
discriminate species of metacercariae in the Diplostomidae using morphology, infection site …

Ecology of diplostomid (Trematoda: Digenea) infection in freshwater fish in southern Africa

A Grobbelaar, LL Van As, HJB Butler, JG Van As - African Zoology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The complex life cycles of most trematode parasites include three hosts. The first
intermediate host is a snail, the second is normally a teleost fish and a piscivorous bird …

Morphology, ultrastructure, genetics, and morphometrics of Diplostomum sp.(Digenea: Diplostomidae) metacercariae infecting the European flounder, Platichthys …

FI Cavaleiro, S Pina, F Russell-Pinto, P Rodrigues… - Parasitology …, 2012 - Springer
The morphology, ultrastructure, genetics, and morphometrics of a species of Diplostomum
von Nordmann 1832 (Digenea: Diplostomidae), isolated from the European flounder …