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Monogenea of the subfamily Heteronchocleidinae, Price, 1968 (Dactylogyridae) from African freshwater fish

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Ilan Paperna
Ilan Paperna
Affiliation:
Ghana-Israel Technical Co-operation Programme, Accra, Ghana
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Three new species of dactylogyrid monogeneans with three anchors are described: two of them, Eutrianchoratus magnum and E. minutus, from Ophiocephalus obscurus, and Heteronchocleidus ctenopomae from the anabantid Ctenopoma kingsleyae, all from south Ghana.

Analysis of the variation in the morphological patterns of the anchors and the bars in the known species of the Heteronchocleidinae suggests gradual specialization from an ancyrocephaliid type with two pairs of anchors to types with three anchors arranged in triangular symmetry.

Heteronchocleidinae occur on both ophiocephaliid and anabantiid fish in Southeast Asia as well as in West Africa.

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Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 59 , Issue 3 , August 1969 , pp. 557 - 561
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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