Cichlidogyrus falcifer Dossou & Birgi 1984
Creators
- 1. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Laboratoire d'écologie et de systématique, Centre de Belair, BP 1386, 18524 Dakar (Sénégal) antoine. pariselle @ ird. fr
- 2. Station méditerranéenne de l'Environnement littoral, Université Montpellier II, 1 Quai de la Daurade, F- 34200 Sète (France) euzet @ univ-montp 2. fr
Description
Cichlidogyrus falcifer Dossou & Birgi, 1984
Cichlidogyrus falcifer Dossou & Birgi, 1984: 104-106, figs 5-8.
Cichlidogyrus dionchus Paperna, 1968 (part): 89-91, pl. 1, fig. 6 (individuals coming from Hemichromis fasciatus) (cf. Dossou & Birgi 1984: 104-106).
TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype: MNHN 207 TC Tj 133.
TYPE HOST. — Hemichromis fasciatus Peters, 1857.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Benin and Cameroon.
SITE. — Gills.
ADDITIONAL LOCALITIES. — Congo, Senegal, Mali, Gambia and Côte d’Ivoire on type host (Pariselle & Euzet 2004).
REMARKS
Dossou & Birgi (1984) indicated that C. falcifer corresponds to a proportion of specimens named C. dionchus by Paperna in 1968; we agree with that: among the three figures given by Paperna (1968: 91), we consider number 6 (pl. I) to be a C. falcifer and probably was found on H. fasciatus.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- TYPE
- Family
- Ancyrocephalidae
- Genus
- Cichlidogyrus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Dactylogyridea
- Phylum
- Platyhelminthes
- Scientific name authorship
- Dossou & Birgi
- Species
- falcifer
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cichlidogyrus falcifer Dossou, 1984 sec. Pariselle & Euzet, 2009
References
- DOSSOU C. & BIRGI E. 1984. - Monogenes parasites d' Hemichromis fasciatus Peters, 1857 (Teleostei, Cichlidae). Annales des Sciences naturelles, Zoologie 6: 101 - 109.
- PAPERNA I. 1968. - Monogenetic Trematodes collected from fresh water fish in Ghana. Second report. Bamidgeh, Bulletin of Fish Culture in Israel 20: 80 - 100.
- PARISELLE A. & EUZET L. 2004. - Two new species of Cichlidogyrus Paperna, 1960 (Monogenea, Ancyrocephalidae) gill parasites on Hemichromis fasciatus (Pisces, Cichlidae) in Africa, with remarks on geographical distribution. Parasite 11: 359 - 364.