%0 Journal Article
%T Deep-water parasite diversity in Lake Tanganyika: description of two new monogenean species from benthopelagic cichlid fishes
%A Maarten P. M. Vanhove
%A Milan Gelnar
%A Nikol Kmentov¨¢
%A Stephan Koblm¨¹ller
%J Archive of "Parasites & Vectors".
%D 2016
%R 10.1186/s13071-016-1696-x
%X Lake Tanganyika is the world¡¯s second deepest lake. Its diverse cichlid assemblage offers a unique opportunity for studying a deep-water host-parasite model in freshwater. Low host specificity and a broad host range including representatives of the Bathybatini tribe in the only monogenean parasite described from this habitat, Cichlidogyrus casuarinus Pariselle, Muterezi Bukinga & Vanhove, 2015 suggest a link between lower specificity and lower host density. Conversely, high host specificity and species richness are reported for monogeneans of the lake¡¯s littoral cichlids. We further investigated whether the deep-water environment in Lake Tanganyika is really monogenean species-depauperate by investigating the monogenean fauna of Trematocara unimaculatum (a representative of the tribe Trematocarini, the sister lineage of the Bathybatini) and Benthochromis horii, a member of the tribe Benthochromini, found in the same deep-water habitat as the already known hosts of C. casuarinus
%K Benthochromis horii
%K Cichlidae
%K Cichlidogyrus
%K Monogenea
%K Trematocara unimaculatum
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4972994/