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Table 1 Species of Gyrodactylus von Nordmann, 1832 recorded from Mexican freshwater fishes

From: To each his own: no evidence of gyrodactylid parasite host switches from invasive poeciliid fishes to Goodea atripinnis Jordan (Cyprinodontiformes: Goodeidae), the most dominant endemic freshwater goodeid fish in the Mexican Highlands

Gyrodactylus spp.

Host (Family)

Locality

Reference

G. actzu García-Vásquez, Razo-Mendivil & Rubio-Godoy, 2015

Poecilia mexicana Steindachner (Poeciliidae)

Ver

[14]

G. apazapanensis García-Vásquez, Razo-Mendivil & Rubio-Godoy, 2015

P. mexicana (Poeciliidae);

Xiphophorus hellerii Heckel (Poeciliidae)

Ver

[14]

G. bullatarudis Turnbull, 1956

Pseudoxiphophorus bimaculatus (syn. Heterandria bimaculata) Heckel (Poeciliidae)

Ver

[46]

G. cichlidarum Paperna,1968

Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters) (Cichlidae)

Sin, Tab, Ver, Yuc

[7, 47]

Oreochromis niloticus (L.) (Cichlidae)

Sin, Tab, Ver, Yuc

[7, 47–49]

Rocky Mountain straina

Ver

 

Pargo UNAM strainb

Ver

 

Florida red strainc

Ver

 

G. elegans von Nordmann, 1832d

Girardinichthys multiradiatus (Meek) (Goodeidae)

Mex

[50, 51]

G. jarocho Rubio-Godoy, Paladini, García-Vásquez & Shinn, 2010

X. hellerii (Poeciliidae)

Ver

[25]

G. lamothei Mendoza-Palmero, Sereno-Uribe & Salgado-Maldonado, 2009

Allotoca diazi (Meek) (Goodeidae)

Allotoca dugesii (Bean) (Goodeidae)

G. multiradiatus (Goodeidae)

Goodea atripinnis Jordan (Goodeidae)

Mich

Mich

DF, Mex

Qro

[24, 26]

G. lhkahuili García-Vásquez, Razo-Mendivil & Rubio-Godoy, 2015

P. mexicana (Poeciliidae)

Ver

[14]

G. mexicanus Mendoza-Palmero, Sereno-Uribe & Salgado-Maldonado, 2009

A. dugesii (Goodeidae)

G. multiradiatus (Meek) (Goodeidae)

G. atripinnis (Goodeidae)

Skiffia lermae Meek (Goodeidae)

Xenotoca variata (Bean) (Goodeidae)

Mich

Mex

DF, Gto

DF

Gto

[24, 26, 52]

G. microdactylus García-Vásquez, Razo-Mendivil & Rubio-Godoy, 2015

P. mexicana (Poeciliidae)

Ver

[14]

G. neotropicalis Kritsky & Fritts, 1970

Astyanax fasciatus (Cuvier) (Characidae)

Yuc

[53]

G. niloticus Cone, Arthur & Bondad-Reantaso, 1995 (junior synonym of G. cichlidarum, see García-Vásquez et al. 2007)

Oreochromis aureus (Steindachner) (Cichlidae)

O. mossambicus (Cichlidae)

O. niloticus (Cichlidae)

Tab

Tab

Tab

[50, 54, 55]

G. pakan Razo-Mendivil, García-Vásquez & Rubio-Godoy, 2016

Astyanax aeneus (Günther) (Characidae)

Ver

[56]

G. pseudobullatarudis García-Vásquez, Razo-Mendivil & Rubio-Godoy, 2015

P. mexicana (Poeciliidae)

Poeciliopsis gracilis (Heckel) (Poeciliidae)

X. hellerii (Poeciliidae)

Hgo, Ver

Pue

Ver

[14, 25]

G. salmonis (Yin & Sproston, 1948)

Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum) (Salmonidae)

Ver

[33]

G. spathulatus Mueller, 1936

Catostomus nebuliferus Garman (Catostomidae)

Dgo

[57]

Gila conspersa Garman (Cyprinidae)

Dgo

 

Ictalurus cf. pricei (Rutter) (Ictaluridae)

Dgo

 

G. takoke García-Vásquez, Razo-Mendivil & Rubio-Godoy, 2015

P. bimaculatus (=H. bimaculata) (Poeciliidae)

P. gracilis (Poeciliidae)

Ver

Pue, Ver

[14]

G. teken Razo-Mendivil, García-Vásquez & Rubio-Godoy, 2016

Astyanax aeneus (Günther) (Characidae)

Ver

[56]

G. unami García-Vásquez, Razo-Mendivil & Rubio-Godoy, 2015

P. gracilis (Poeciliidae)

Ver

[14]

G. xalapensis Rubio-Godoy, Paladini, García-Vásquez & Shinn, 2010

P. bimaculatus (=H. bimaculata) (Poeciliidae)

Ver

[25]

G. xtachuna García-Vásquez, Razo-Mendivil & Rubio-Godoy, 2015

P. gracilis (Poeciliidae)

P. mexicana (Poeciliidae)

P. bimaculatus (=H. bimaculata) (Poeciliidae)

X. hellerii (Poeciliidae)

Pue, Ver

Ver

Ver

Ver

[14, 25]

G. yacatli García-Vásquez, Hansen, Christison, Bron & Shinn, 2011

O. niloticus (Cichlidae)

Sin, Tab

[58]

  1. Abbreviations: DF Mexico City, Dgo Durango, Gto Guanajuato, Hgo Hidalgo, Mex Estado de México, Mich Michoacán, Pue Puebla, Qro Querétaro, Sin Sinaloa, Tab Tabasco, Ver Veracruz, Yuc Yucatán
  2. aPargo-UNAM is an Oreochromis hybrid, whose genetic composition is: 50% Florida red tilapia, 25% Rocky Mountain tilapia and 25% red O. niloticus
  3. bRocky mountain is an Oreochromis hybrid, whose genetic composition is: 50% O. niloticus and 50% O. aureus
  4. cFlorida red tilapia is an Oreochromis hybrid, whose genetic composition is: 50% O. mossambicus and 50% O. aureus
  5. dThis species was identified by Salgado-Maldonado et al. [50] and Sánchez-Nava et al. [51] as Gyrodactylus cf. elegans von Nordmann, 1832; however, re-examination of the samples suggests that this material represents a further two undescribed species (data not shown, pers. obs.)