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A Desseria sp. from flathead mullet in South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2002

N.J. Smit ,
J.C. Eiras ,
M.J.T. Ranzani-Paiva  and
A.J. Davies
N.J. Smit
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of the Free State, PO Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa
J.C. Eiras
Affiliation:
Departamento de Zoologia e Antropologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, 4099-002 Porto, Portugal
M.J.T. Ranzani-Paiva
Affiliation:
Instituto de Pesca, Av. Francisco Matarazzo 455, 05031-900 São Paulo, Brasil
A.J. Davies
Affiliation:
School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey. E-mail: ajdavies.russell@kingston.ac.uk
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Abstract

Five of 26 flathead mullet (Mugil cephalus) captured in the Seekoei River estuary in South Africa showed haemogregarine infections. Both trophozoites and gamonts were observed, and image analysis technology was used in parasite morphometric description. Gamonts were compared with those of Desseria mugili from Brazil and found to be different. The parasite mostly closely matched a haemogregarine previously illustrated, but not described from South Africa, and apparent lack of merogony suggested that it was a species of Desseria.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 82 , Issue 4 , August 2002 , pp. 675 - 676
Copyright
2002 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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