Gyrodactylus jalalii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gyrodactylidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Platyzoa Phylum: Platyhelminthes Subphylum: Rhabditophora Superclassis: Neodermata Classis: Monogenea Subclassis: Monopisthocotylea Ordo: Gyrodactylidea

Familia: Gyrodactylidae
Genus: Gyrodactylus
Species: Gyrodactylus jalalii

Name

• Gyrodactylus jalalii Vanhove, Boeger, Muterezi Bukinga, Volckaert, Huyse & Pariselle, 2012: 4, figs 1, 2

Holotype: MNHN HEL301.

Type locality: Mehran River, Persian Gulf Basin (2009).

Host Type: Iranocichla hormuzensis Coad, 1982 (Teleostei, Perciformes, Cichlidae).

Etymology: The species epithet, jalalii, honours prof. dr. Behiar Jalali Jafari (1953-2010) (obituary in Shamsi 2010). He was a researcher in aquatic animal health and fish parasitology at the Veterinary Department of the Islamic Azad University (Iran) and a keen student of monogeneans.

References

• Vanhove, Maarten P. M., Walter A. Boeger, Fidel Muterezi Bukinga, F. A. M. Volckaert, T. Huyse & Antoine Pariselle, 2012: A new species of Gyrodactylus (Monogenea, Gyrodactylidae), an ectoparasite from the endemic Iranocichla hormuzensis (Teleostei, Cichlidae), the only Iranian cichlid. European journal of entomology, 30: 1–10. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2012.30.