One of the most widely distributed African freshwater fish is the African sharptooth catfish
Clarias gariepinus (Burchell) that is naturally distributed in 8 of the 10 ichthyofaunal regions …

Members of the Diplostomoidea mature in amniotes and employ vertebrates, annelids and
molluscs as second intermediate hosts. Diplostomoid life cycles generally follow a three …

Larvae (metacercariae) in some species of Diplostomidae (Platyhelminthes: Digenea)
inhabit fish eyes and are difficult to identify to species based on morphology. DNA barcoding …

To identify trematode diversity and life-cycles in the sub-Arctic Lake Takvatn, Norway, we
characterised 120 trematode isolates from mollusc first intermediate hosts, metacercariae …

Higher systematics within the Digenea, Carus 1863 have been relatively stable since a
phylogenetic analysis of partial nuclear ribosomal markers (rDNA) led to the erection of the …

Abstract The Diplostomidae Poirier, 1886 is a large, globally distributed family of digeneans
parasitic in intestines of their definitive hosts. Diplostomum and Tylodelphys spp. are broadly …

The genus Neoechinorhynchus represents a hyper-diverse group of acanthocephalans,
parasites of fresh and brackish water fish and freshwater turtles, with approximately 116 …

Despite over 100 years of digenean trematode parasite species descriptions, from a wide
diversity of vertebrate and invertebrate host species, our ability to recognize the diversity of …

The recent development of genetic methods allows the delineation of species boundaries,
especially in organisms where morphological characters are not reliable to differentiate …

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 …