Gyrodactylus magadiensis, Santos & Maina & Avenant-Oldewage, 2019
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.1051/parasite/2019077 |
publication LSID |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F07E963A-B61B-FFAE-FFC8-F9C8F3CD2361 |
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
scientific name |
Gyrodactylus magadiensis |
status |
sp. nov. |
Gyrodactylus magadiensis View in CoL n. sp.
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Type host: Alcolapia grahami (Boulenger, 1912) ( Perciformes , Cichlidae )
Type locality: Lake Magadi , Eastern Rift Valley, Kenya (1 ° 53, 28.4 ,, S, 36 ° 18, 09.6 ,, E)
Infection site: Gills
Type material: Holotype: Mounted in Canada Balsam and deposited in the Iziko South African Museum , Cape Town , South Africa (accession no. SAM – A091374 View Materials ) . Paratypes: four specimens deposited in the Iziko South African Museum , Cape Town, South Africa (accession no. SAMC – A091375 View Materials to SAMC – A091378 View Materials ) ; four specimens deposited in the Natural History Museum , London, UK (accession nos. NHMUK 2019.12 View Materials .6.1 to NHMUK 2019.12.6.4); and four specimens deposited in the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium (accession nos. M. T.39080 to M. T.390803) .
ITS rDNA sequences: Representative sequence submitted to GenBank (accession no. MN 738699).
Etymology: The species is named after Lake Magadi from which the specimens were collected.
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