Gyrodactylus magadiensis, Santos & Maina & Avenant-Oldewage, 2019

Santos, Quinton Marco Dos, Maina, John Ndegwa & Avenant-Oldewage, Annemariè, 2019, Gyrodactylus magadiensis n. sp. (Monogenea, Gyrodactylidae) parasitising the gills of Alcolapia grahami (Perciformes, Cichlidae), a fish inhabiting the extreme environment of Lake Magadi, Kenya, Parasite (Paris, France) 26 (76), pp. 1-13 : 6

Gyrodactylus magadiensis 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 ) . Paratypes: four specimens deposited in the Iziko South African Museum , Cape Town, South Africa (accession no. SAMC – A091375 to SAMC – A091378 ) ; four specimens deposited in the Natural History Museum , London, UK (accession nos. NHMUK 2019.12 .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.