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Redescription of Cichlidogyrus tiberianus Paperna, 1960 and C. dossoui Douëllou, 1993 (Monogenea: Ancyrocephalidae), with special reference to the male copulatory organ

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The flatworms of the genus Cichlidogyrus Paperna, 1960 (Monogenea: Ancyrocephalidae) are gill parasites of freshwater fish, affecting predominantly the family Cichlidae. Cichlidogyrus tiberianus Paperna, 1960 and Cichlidogyrus dossoui Douëllou, 1993 are among the most widely distributed species of the genus, occurring in several African river basins and infecting many different host species, including the economically important Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus) and redbreast tilapia Coptodon rendalli (Boulenger). Despite their wide distribution, C. tiberianus and C. dossoui have so far been studied only by light microscopy. In this paper they are redescribed on the basis of scanning electron microscopy of newly-collected material. The new material was obtained from redbreast tilapia caught in the Luapula River (D. R. Congo). The haptoral sclerites and genitalia are redescribed and illustrated in detail. Special attention is given to the complex morphology of the male copulatory organ.

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Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank A. Reygel for executing the drawings, E. Harris, D. Gibson (Natural History Museum, London) and A. Ghoneim (Damietta University, Egypt) for help in obtaining literature, A. Pariselle (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France/Cameroon), S. Rothman (Tel Aviv University, Israel) and M. Jorissen (RMCA/Hasselt University) for discussions on Cichlidogyrus taxonomy, E. Vreven (RMCA/KU Leuven), A. Chocha Manda, E. Abwe, B. Katemo Manda, G. Kapepula Kasembele, M. Kasongo Ilunga Kayaba, C. Kalombo Kabalika and C. Mukweze Mulelenu (Université de Lubumbashi, D.R. Congo) for their contributions to this research, and C. Allard, M. Parrent, J. Snoeks and D. Van den Spiegel for assistance with RMCA collections. Moise Katumbi Chapwe, the last governor of the ex-province of Katanga, is cordially thanked for his kind hospitality and support. Two anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments and suggestions.

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The authors wish to thank the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BRAIN-be Pioneer Project BR/132/PI/TILAPIA) for financial support. M.P.M.V. is partly supported by Czech Science Foundation project no. P505/12/G112 (ECIP). The fieldwork was partly financed by a travel grant from the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) to MPMV, by the South Initiative Renforcement des capacités locales pour une meilleure évaluation biologique des impacts miniers au Katanga (RD Congo) sur les poissons et leurs milieux aquatiques (ZRDC2014MP084) of the University Development Cooperation of the Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR-UOS), and by the Mbisa Congo project, a framework agreement project of the RMCA and the Belgian Development Cooperation.

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  1. Department of Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, 3080, Tervuren, Belgium

    Wouter Fannes, Maarten P. M. Vanhove & Tine Huyse

  2. Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37, Brno, Czech Republic

    Maarten P. M. Vanhove

  3. Laboratory of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Genomics, Department of Biology, University of Leuven, Charles Debériotstraat 32, 3000, Leuven, Belgium

    Maarten P. M. Vanhove & Tine Huyse

  4. Capacities for Biodiversity and Sustainable Development, Operational Directorate Natural Environment, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000, Brussels, Belgium

    Maarten P. M. Vanhove

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Fannes, W., Vanhove, M.P.M. & Huyse, T. Redescription of Cichlidogyrus tiberianus Paperna, 1960 and C. dossoui Douëllou, 1993 (Monogenea: Ancyrocephalidae), with special reference to the male copulatory organ. Syst Parasitol 94, 133–144 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-016-9685-1

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