Onchobdella aframae Paperna, 1968

Pariselle, Antoine & Euzet, Louis, 2009, Systematic revision of dactylogyridean parasites (Monogenea) from cichlid fishes in Africa, the Levant and Madagascar, Zoosystema 31 (4), pp. 849-898 : 854

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2009n4a6
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4520313
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scientific name	Onchobdella aframae Paperna, 1968
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Onchobdella aframae Paperna, 1968 View in CoL

Onchobdella aframae Paperna, 1968: 205 View in CoL : fig. 4f-h.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype: BMNH 1968.9.4.3.

TYPE HOST. — Hemichromis fasciatus Peters, 1857 .

TYPE LOCALITY. — Afram sector, Volta Lake, Ghana.

SITE. — Gills.

ADDITIONAL LOCALITIES. — Benin and Cameroon ( Dossou & Birgi 1984); Senegal, Gambia, Mali and Côte d’Ivoire ( Pariselle & Euzet 2004).

REMARKS

Dossou (1973), in his PhD Thesis on the fish parasites from South Benin, re-described O. aframae and indicated a new host: Pelmatochromis caudifasciatus Boulenger, 1913 (the species determination of this new host remains uncertain; in fact Parananochromis caudifasciatus (Boulenger, 1913) is limited to Southern Cameroon, the Northern part of the Congo and the Rio Muni; this distribution excludes the Benin rivers [see Froese & Pauly 2009]).