Folia Parasitologica 51[4] 291-298 (2004) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2004.036

Monogenoids from the gills of spiny eels (Teleostei: Mastacembelidae) in India and Iraq, proposal of Mastacembelocleidus gen. n., and status of the Indian species of Actinocleidus, Urocleidus and Haplocleidus (Monogenoidea: Dactylogyridae)

Delane C. Kritsky1, K.C. Pandey2, Nirupama Agrawal2, Shamall M.A. Abdullah3
1 Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences, Campus Box 8090, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho 83209, USA
2 Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow 226 001, India
3 Department of Biology, College of Education, University of Salahaddin, Erbil, Iraq

Mastacembelocleidus gen. n. (Monogenoidea: Dactylogyridae) is proposed to include two species collected and redescribed from spiny eels (Mastacembelidae) in India and Iraq: Mastacembelocleidus bam (Tripathi, 1959) comb. n. (syn. Ancyrocephalus bam Tripathi, 1959) from the gills of Macrognathus pancalus (new host record) and Macrognathus aculeatus (Synbranchiformes: Mastacembelidae) from Lucknow, India; and Mastacembelocleidus heteranchorus (Kulkarni, 1969) comb. n. (syn. Urocleidus heteranchorus Kulkarni, 1969) from the gills of Mastacembelus armatus from Lucknow, India, and Mastacembelus mastacembelus (new host record) from the environs of Erbil, Iraq (new locality record). Urocleidus rhyncobdelli Jain, 1959, Haliotrema tandani Agrawal et Singh, 1982 and Urocleidus raipurensis Dubey, Gupta et Agarwal, 1992 are considered junior subjective synonyms of M. bam.

Keywords: Monogenoidea, Dactylogyridae, Mastacembelocleidus, Mastacembelocleidus bam, Mastacembelocleidus heteranchorus, Mastacembelidae, spiny eels, Macrognathus aculeatus, Macrognathus pancalus, Mastacembelus armatus, Mastacembelus mastacembelus, India, Iraq

Received: June 14, 2004; Accepted: September 2, 2004; Published: December 1, 2004  Show citation

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Kritsky, D.C., Pandey, K.C., Agrawal, N., & Abdullah, S.M.A. (2004). Monogenoids from the gills of spiny eels (Teleostei: Mastacembelidae) in India and Iraq, proposal of Mastacembelocleidus gen. n., and status of the Indian species of Actinocleidus, Urocleidus and Haplocleidus (Monogenoidea: Dactylogyridae). Folia Parasitologica, 51(4), 291-298. doi: 10.14411/fp.2004.036
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