Some helminth parasites of marine fishes of South Africa: Families Gorgoderidae, Zoogonidae, Cephaloporidae, Acanthocolpidae and Lepocreadiidae (Digenea)

Marine fish parasitology in South Africa: history of discovery and future direction

“…Interestingly, this was the second time that a South African marine fish parasite shared a name with Prof. Robin Miles Overstreet, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, USA. The first was when Bray (1985) named a new genus of digenean for Prof. Overstreet, Overstreetia sodwanaensis Bray, 1985, a parasite of the wide-banded hardyhead silverside, Pranesus pinguis (now Atherinomorus lacunosus) from Sodwana on the South African east coast. In their second paper Bullard et al (2004) (Vaughan et al 2008;Vaughan and Chisholm 2009).…”

“…In papers five to nine of this series Bray (1984Bray ( , 1985Bray ( , 1986aBray ( , 1986bBray ( , 1987 laid the foundation of our knowledge on South African digeneans through recording a total of 43 species of which 18 were new to science, including four new genera.…”

“…In recognition of their contributions Bray (1978Bray ( , 1985Bray ( , 1987 and Bray et al (1988) The series was initiated with a paper by Stephen Prudhoe (1956) describing a new trematode and completed 32 years later by the tenth and final paper in the series by Bray et al (1988), recording a new species of Acanthocephala. As the major part of our knowledge on South African fish helminths is acquired from museum collections and donations from fish researchers, it again highlights the importance of these types of collections to our understanding of fish parasitology, especially in South Africa.…”

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“…So far, members of the genera Aponurus, Holorchis, Derogenes, Lecithaster, Lasiotocus, Proctotrema and Anisocladium have been reported in Mullus barbatus in the Mediterranean Sea (Bray, 1985;Bartoli & Bray, 1996;Bartoli, Gibson & Bray, 2005;Carreras-Aubets et al, 2011;Carreras-Aubets et al, 2012;Debenedetti et al, 2013;Radujkovic & Sundic, 2014). Expect Proctotrema, the absence of these digenean parasites in this study could be resulted from the lack of the final and intermediate hosts in our sampling area.…”

A discussion of the status of the subfamily Baccigerinae Yamaguti, 1958 (Digenea) and the constitution of the family Fellodistomidae Nicoll, 1909

“…On the other hand, in the lepocreadiids the canalicular seminal receptacle is often distinct from Laurer's canal, but with a common duct to the oviduct (e.g. Lepidapedon nicolli Manter, 1934; as described by Bray, 1985), or with a separate, if very close, opening into the oviduct (e.g. Aephnidiogenes rossi Bray, 1985; as described by Bray, 1985).…”