Cichlidogyrus aegypticus Ergens, 1981

Cichlidogyrus aegypticus Ergens, 1981: 211, fig. 7.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Originally deposited at the CAS, with no mention of reference number.

Voucher specimen: MNHN 484 HF Tg96 and Tg97 (Pariselle & Euzet 1996).

TYPE HOST. — Tilapia zillii (Gervais, 1848) .

TYPE LOCALITY. — Cairo, Nile River, Egypt.

ADDITIONAL HOSTS. — Tilapia guineensis (Bleeker, 1862) (Pariselle & Euzet 1995c), Tilapia dageti Thys van den Audenaerde, 1971, Tilapia louka Thys van den Audenaerde, 1969 and Tilapia walteri Thys van den Audenaerde, 1968 (Pariselle & Euzet 1996).

SITE. — Gills.

ADDITIONAL LOCALITIES. — Senegal, Guinea, and Congo on T. guineensis (Pariselle & Euzet 1995c); Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso on T. zillii, Côte d’Ivoire on T. dageti; Guinea on T. louka and T. walteri (Pariselle & Euzet 1996) .

REMARKS

Dossou (1982) described this species in Benin, but confused the identification with C. gallus Pariselle & Euzet, 1995 (see below under Cichlidogyrus gallus). The specimens of C. aegypticus from T. louka and T. walteri show a shape of the vagina slightly different from that described on T. zillii, which was not deemed sufficient for Pariselle & Euzet (1996) to create a new species.