Scutogyrus longicornis (Paperna & Thurston, 1969)

Cichlidogyrus longicornis longicornis Paperna & Thurston, 1969: 20-22, fig. 3a, b, d.

Cichlidogyrus longicornis – Douëllou 1993: 170-172, fig. 71, 72.

Scutogyrus longicornis – Pariselle & Euzet 1995b: 161- 163, figs 4, 5.

Actinocleidus muelleri Ferdousi & Chandra, 2002: 56, 57, fig. 4.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype from Sarotherodon galilaeus: MRAC M.T. 35.931 (Paperna 1979).

Paratypes: private collection of Dr Paperna.

OTHER MATERIAL. — MNHN 128 HF (Douëllou 1993); MNHN 461 HF Tg58 and Tg59; BMNH 1994.4.7.2; MRAC 37.358 (Pariselle & Euzet 1995b).

TYPE HOST. — Sarotherodon galilaeus (Linnaeus, 1758) .

TYPE LOCALITY. — Lakes Georges and Albert, Uganda.

ADDITIONAL HOSTS. — Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758) and Tilapia zillii Gervais, 1848 (Paperna 1979) (for T. zillii: as species belonging to Scutogyrus are only found on mouthbreeder cichlid fishes, it is probably the result of a sampling error [mix of samples or contamination] or of host identification); Oreochromis mortimeri (Trewavas, 1966) (Douëllou 1993); O. mossambicus (Ferdousi & Chandra 2002) .

SITE. — Gills.

ADDITIONAL LOCALITIES. — Kete Kratchi, Volta Lake, Ghana (Paperna 1969); Cairo, Nile River, Egypt on O. niloticus (Ergens 1981); Kariba Lake, Zimbabwe on O. mortimeri (Douëllou 1993) . Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire on O. niloticus (Pariselle & Euzet 1995b) . Bangladesh in BAU and BFRI fish farm ponds on introduced O. niloticus and O. mossambicus (Ferdousi & Chandra 2002) .

REMARKS

Dossou (1982) suggested that C. longicornis longicornis could be raised to species level, this was done by Douëllou (1993).