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This study investigates the morphology and phylogenetic positioning of a proposed new species of parasitic copepods described as\n                    <jats:italic>Ergasilus ereimia<\/jats:italic>\n                    sp. nov. (Ergasilidae). The ectoparasitic female copepods (1,645 specimens) were obtained by performing parasitological screening of ethanol-preserved gills of lates perches from Lake Turkana (Kenya; 4 specimens of\n                    <jats:italic>Lates niloticus<\/jats:italic>\n                    , 6 specimens of\n                    <jats:italic>Lates longispinis<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) and Lake Albert (Uganda; 5 specimens of\n                    <jats:italic>L. niloticus<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) in East Africa. Light and confocal microscopy were used to conduct the morphological characterisation and to determine the spine-seta formula of the parasitic females. A differential diagnosis was conducted with all 18 other formally described species of\n                    <jats:italic>Ergasilus<\/jats:italic>\n                    from the African continent, which revealed\n                    <jats:italic>E. ereimia<\/jats:italic>\n                    sp. nov. to have a unique combination of morphological traits and a unique spine-seta formula. A phylogenetic tree was constructed using the concatenated partial sequences of the 18S and 28S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) genes. We hypothesised that\n                    <jats:italic>E. ereimia<\/jats:italic>\n                    sp. nov. would belong to the same clade as the other continental African ergasilids. This proved to be correct, and this taxon forms a well-supported sister clade to the other continental African species of\n                    <jats:italic>Ergasilus<\/jats:italic>\n                    with available sequence data. The intra- and interspecific model-corrected genetic distances were calculated based on the fragments of the 18S rDNA (average of 0.001 and 0.031 respectively) and 28S rDNA (average of 0.001 and 0.154 respectively) genetic markers, as well as on a fragment (1,122\u202fbp) of the cytochrome\n                    <jats:italic>c<\/jats:italic>\n                    oxidase subunit I (COI) mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences (intraspecific average of 0.019), all of which further support the designation of a novel species of ergasilid copepods. A Neighbour Joining haplotype network based on the fragment of COI mtDNA showed ongoing diversification between the populations of\n                    <jats:italic>E. ereimia<\/jats:italic>\n                    sp. nov. from Lake Turkana and Lake Albert, in addition to the observed continuous intraspecific morphological variation in size and pigmentation.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fvets.2025.1699263","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,2]],"date-time":"2026-02-02T16:24:05Z","timestamp":1770049445000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["A new ergasilid copepod from lates perches in East Africa: morphology, phylogenetics, and genetic structure of Ergasilus ereimia sp. nov."],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Ferre","family":"Vandenberg","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University","place":["Diepenbeek, Belgium"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nikol","family":"Kmentov\u00e1","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University","place":["Diepenbeek, Belgium"]},{"name":"Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Operational Directorates Natural Environment, Taxonomy and Phylogeny","place":["Brussels, Belgium"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hiram","family":"Karanja","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute","place":["Mombasa, Kenya"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Maarten","family":"Van Steenberge","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University","place":["Diepenbeek, Belgium"]},{"name":"Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Operational Directorates Natural Environment, Taxonomy and Phylogeny","place":["Brussels, Belgium"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nathan","family":"Vranken","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University","place":["Diepenbeek, Belgium"]},{"name":"Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Operational Directorates Natural Environment, Taxonomy and Phylogeny","place":["Brussels, Belgium"]},{"name":"Section Vertebrates, Biology Department, Royal Museum for Central Africa","place":["Tervuren, Belgium"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Maarten P. 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