Catfish (Order Siluriformes) is one of the largest orders teleosts containing about 4,100 species with highly diverse and distributed worldwide, representing 12% all ∼6.3% vertebrates. are economic ecological importance; many large fish raised or caught for food, small cultured as ornamental. Like other species, monogenean a common ectoparasites on catfish more than 379 recorded. The current st...

Nile tilapia, one of the most popular aquaculture species worldwide, has been introduced into Congo Basin several times for purposes. Previous studies based on morphological features showed that some monogenean gill parasites were co-introduced with tilapia and spilled over to native Congolese cichlids. In this study, we genetically investigated monogeneans from three major parts Basin: Upper, ...