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Review of Mothocya Costa, in Hope, 1851 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from southern Africa, with the description of a new species

Hadfield, Kerry A.; Bruce, Niel L.; Smit, Nico J. (Taylor & Francis, 2015)

Three species of Mothocya are reported from the east coast of southern Africa: Mothocya plagulophora (Haller, 1880) from Maputo, Mozambique, from the gills of Hemiramphus far (Forsskål, 1775); Mothocya renardi (Bleeker, 1857) ...

Metal concentrations in Hydrocynus vittatus (Castelnau 1861) populations from a premier conservation area: relationships with environmental concentrations

Gerber, Ruan; Smit, Nico J.; Wepener, Victor; Van Vuren, Johan H.J. (Elsevier, 2016)

Metals are known to have deleterious effects on aquatic ecosystems, so monitoring the bioaccumulation of these pollutants is important for the assessment of potential impacts. The aim of the study was therefore to determine ...

Unusual haemogregarines parasitizing intertidal teleosts from the subtropical east coast of South Africa, with the description of Haemogregarina kunegemina sp. nov.

Ferreira, Maryke L.; Smit, Nico J.; Davies, Angela J. (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

Of three intertidal fish species collected on the east coast of South Africa, 67% (127/190) had haemogregarine infections. Horned rockskippers, Antennablennius bifilum Günther, 1861, demonstrated 77% parasite prevalence, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Linking organochlorine exposure to biomarker response patterns in Anurans: a case study of Müller’s clawed frog (Xenopus muelleri) from a tropical malaria vector control region

Wolmarans, Nico J.; Du Preez, Louis H.; Ikenaka, Yoshinori; Smit, Nico J.; Wepener, Victor (Springer, 2018)

Organochlorine pesticides are highly persistent in aquatic ecosystems. Amphibians, specifically anurans, play an intricate part in the aquatic food web, and have very permeable skin which makes them prone to bioaccumulation ...

Revision of the fish parasitic genus Pleopodias Richardson, 1910 (Isopoda, Cymothoidae), with the description of a new species and key to the genus

Hadfield, Kerry A.; Smit, Nico J. (Pensoft, 2017)

The cymothoid genus, Pleopodias Richardson, 1910, is revised and a new species from South Africa is recorded. Pleopodias nielbrucei sp. n. can be distinguished by large eyes covering majority of the cephalon (almost in ...

Assessment of DDT contamination in house rat as a possible bioindicator in DDT-sprayed areas from Ethiopia and South Africa

Yohannes, Yared Beyene; Ikenaka, Yoshinori; Wepener, Victor; Smit, Nico J.; Ito, Gengo (Springer, 2017)

Ethiopia and South Africa are among the few countries to still implement indoor residual spraying with dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) for malaria vector control. In this study, we investigated the levels and ...

Resolution of the identity of three species of Diplostomum (Digenea: Diplostomidae) parasitising freshwater fishes in South Africa, combining molecular and morphological evidence

Hoogendoorn, Coret; Smit, Nico J.; Kudlai, Olena (Elsevier, 2020)

Reliable data on the diversity of the genus Diplostomum (Digenea: Diplostomidae) parasitising freshwater fishes in South Africa, as well as in Africa, is almost non-existent. Most of the morphology-based identifications ...

First Hemolivia from southern Africa: reassigning chelonian Haemogregarina parvula Dias, 1953 (Adeleorina: Haemogregarinidae) to Hemolivia (Adeleorina: Karyolysidae)

Cook, Courtney A.; Netherlands, Edward C.; Smit, Nico J. (Taylor & Francis, 2015)

To date, only a single species of Hemolivia, Hemolivia mauritanica (Sergent & Sergent, 1904), has been described from African terrestrial tortoises. Although various haemogregarines have been described from southern ...