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Diversity of African parasitic copepods (Crustacea)

DÁVIDOVÁ, Martina and Mária SEIFERTOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Diversity of African parasitic copepods (Crustacea)

Authors

DÁVIDOVÁ, Martina (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Mária SEIFERTOVÁ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution)

Edition

4th Workshop of European Centre of Ichthyoparasitology, 2015

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Konferenční abstrakt

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/15:00081625

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

ISBN

978-80-210-8016-4

Keywords in English

African parasitic copepods; diversity; freshwater fishes
Změněno: 2/3/2016 17:13, RNDr. Martina Dávidová, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

Diversity of parasitic copepods parasitizing African freshwater fishes is relatively high, where approximately 50 species are recently known. Up to now, more than 90 species of African freshwater fishes sampled in Kenya (Lake Turkana), Sudan (White Nile and Blue Nile River), Senegal (Gambia River), Burundi and Democratic Republic of the Congo (Lake Tanganyika) and Morocco were investigated.Species determination based on morphometric methods revealed 23 different parasitic copepod species classified into 7 genera: Ergasilus (8 species), Lamproglena (7 species), Lamproglenoides (1 species), Lernaea (3 species), Opistholernaea (2 species), Lernaeogiraffa (1 species), Dysphorus (1 species). Molecular identification based on two nuclear markers (18S and 28S) supported morphometric differentiation. In total, 15 different 18S and 17 different 28S rDNA sequences of parasitic copepods were newly identified.

Links

GBP505/12/G112, research and development project
Name: ECIP - Evropské centrum ichtyoparazitologie
Investor: Czech Science Foundation