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Morphological and molecular characterization of a marine fish trypanosome from South Africa, including its development in a leech vector

Hayes, Polly M.; Lawton, Scott P.; Smit, Nico J.; Gibson, Wendy C.; Davies, Angela J. (BioMed Central, 2014)

Background Trypanosomes are ubiquitous blood parasites of marine and freshwater fishes, typically transmitted by aquatic leeches. Phylogenetic studies have been dominated by examples derived from freshwater fishes, with ...

The distribution and host-association of a haemoparasite of damselfishes (Pomacentridae) from the eastern Caribbean based on a combination of morphology and 18S rDNA sequences

Sikkel, Paul C.; Cook, Courtney A.; Smit, Nico J.; Renoux, Lance P.; Bennett, Courtney L. (Elsevier, 2018)

Coral reefs harbor the greatest biodiversity per unit area of any ecosystem on earth. While parasites constitute the majority of this biodiversity, they remain poorly studied due to the cryptic nature of many parasites and ...

Review of the fish parasitic genus Ceratothoa Dana, 1852 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae) from South Africa, including the description of two new species

Hadfield, Kerry A.; Bruce, Niel L.; Smit, Nico J. (Pensoft Publishers, 2014)

The genus Ceratothoa Dana, 1852 is revised for South African waters and re-diagnosed. Ceratothoa retusa (Schioedte & Meinert, 1883) is recorded from the eastern coast, and Ceratothoa africanae sp. n. and C. famosa sp. n. ...

New records of fish parasitic isopods of the gill-attaching genus Mothocya Costa, in Hope, 1851 from the Virgin Islands, Caribbean, with description of a new species

Hadfield, Kerry A.; Sikkel, Paul C.; Smit, Nico J. (Pensoft Publishers, 2014)

Two species of Mothocya Costa, in Hope, 1851 are reported from the Virgin Islands. Mothocya xenobranchia Bruce, 1986 was collected from St. John Island from the gills of the Atlantic needlefish, Strongylura marina, which ...

Hepatozoon species (Adeleorina: Hepatozoidae) of African bufonids, with morphological description and molecular diagnosis of Hepatozoon ixoxo sp. nov. parasitising three Amietophrynus species (Anura: Bufonidae)

Netherlands, Edward C.; Cook, Courtney A.; Smit, Nico J. (BioMed Central, 2014)

Background Haemogregarines comprise a large group of apicomplexan blood parasites. In 1996 all anuran haemogregarines still in the genus Haemogregarina Danilewsky, 1885 were reassigned to the genus Hepatozoon Miller, ...

Conservation of fishes in the Elands River, Mpumalanga, South Africa: past, present and future

O’Brien, Gordon C.; Smit, Nico J.; Wepener, Victor (AOSIS, 2014)

In an isolated reach, between two large natural waterfalls in the Elands River in Mpumalanga, populations of a critically endangered Kneria sp., the endangered Chiloglanis bifurcus and a genetically unique population of ...

Redescription, molecular characterisation and taxonomic re-evaluation of a unique African monitor lizard haemogregarine Karyolysus paradoxa (Dias, 1954) n. comb. (Karyolysidae)

Cook, Courtney A.; Netherlands, Edward C.; Smit, Nico J. (BioMed Central, 2016)

Background: Within the African monitor lizard family Varanidae, two haemogregarine genera have been reported. These comprise five species of Hepatozoon Miller, 1908 and a species of Haemogregarina Danilewsky, 1885. Even ...

Molecular assessment of three species of Anilocra (Isopoda, Cymothoidae) ectoparasites from Caribbean coral reef fishes, with the description of Anilocra brillae sp. n.

Welicky, Rachel L.; Hadfield, Kerry A.; Sikkel, Paul C.; Smit, Nico J. (Pensoft, 2017)

A morphological review and molecular characterization of Anilocra haemuli Bunkley Williams & Williams, 1981, were completed using specimens collected from Haemulon flavolineatum Desmarest, 1823 (French grunt) and Epinephelus ...

Redescription and molecular characterisation of the fish ectoparasite Anilocra capensis Leach, 1818 (Isopoda: Cymothoidae), with description of six new species of Anilocra Leach, 1818 from Africa

Welicky, Rachel L.; Smit, Nico J. (BioMed Central, 2019)

Background: Anilocra capensis Leach, 1818 is the only named species of Anilocra Leach, 1818 from South Africa. Anilocra is a large genus (>40 species) with high levels of diversity reported from the Caribbean and Indo-West ...

Redescription and molecular diagnosis of Hepatozoon theileri (Laveran, 1905) (Apicomplexa: Adeleorina: Hepatozoidae), infecting Amietia quecketti (Anura: Pyxicephalidae)

Netherlands, Edward C.; Cook, Courtney A.; Smit, Nico J.; Du Preez, Louis H. (Praha : Academia, 2014)

Blood smears prepared from the peripheral blood of 20 wild caught Amietia quecketti (Boulenger) from the North-West University Botanical Gardens, North West Province, South Africa, were examined for the presence of ...