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Drought-associated absence of alien invasive anchorworm, Lernaea cyprinacea (Copepoda: Lernaeidae), is related to changes in fish health

Welicky, Rachel L.; De Swardt, Jurgen; Gerber, Ruan; Netherlands, Edward C.; Smit, Nico J. (Elsevier, 2017)

Recently, Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus Peters, 1852) were listed on the IUCN Red List as near-threatened as their populations are at risk due to hybridization. Another factor that potentially contributes to ...

Alien freshwater fish parasites from South Africa: diversity, distribution, status and the way forward

Smit, Nico J.; Malherbe, Wynand; Hadfield, Kerry A. (Elsevier, 2017)

The global translocation and introduction of freshwater fish into non-native regions has created the perfect opportunity for the co-introduction of their parasites. In a recent review on non-native freshwater fish introductions ...

Morphological and molecular characterization of an African freshwater fish trypanosome, including its development in a leech vector

Smit, Nico J.; Joubert, Adri; Cook, Courtney A.; Lawton, Scott P.; Hayes, Polly M. (Elsevier, 2020)

Trypanosomes are ubiquitous blood parasites of fishes and at least 16 species were originally described infecting African freshwater fishes. This number was later reduced to six and in the late 1990s it was proposed that ...

Review of the fish parasitic genus Elthusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae) from South Africa, including the description of three new species

Van der Wal, Serita; Smit, Nico J.; Hadfield, Kerry A. (Pensoft, 2019)

The branchial-attaching cymothoid genus, Elthusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 is a genus with a world-wide distribution of 36 species, including the three species described here. Elthusa raynaudii (Milne Ed-wards, 1840) is ...