SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research International Journal of Evolutionary Biology Volume 2011, Article ID 471480, 15 pages doi:10.4061/2011/471480 Review Article The Monogenean Parasite Fauna of Cichlids: A Potential Tool for Host Biogeography Antoine Pariselle,1 Walter A. Boeger,2 Jos Snoeks,3, 4 Charles F. Bilong Bilong,5 Serge Morand,1 and Maarten P. M. Vanhove3, 4 1 ISE-M, UMR5554 CNRS, UR226 IRD (ex-ORSTOM), Universit´e Montpellier II—CC 063, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France 2 Laboratorio´ de Ecologia Molecular e Parasitologia Evolutiva, Grupo Integrado de Aquicultura e Estudos Ambientais, Universidade Federal do Parana,´ Setor de Ciˆencias Biologicas,´ Departamento de Zoologia, Caixa Postal 19073, CEP 81531-980, Curitiba, PR, Brazil 3 Ichthyology Unit, African Zoology Department, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, 3080 Tervuren, Belgium 4 Laboratory of Animal Diversity and Systematics, Biology Department, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Charles Deberiotstraat 32, 3000 Leuven, Belgium 5 Laboratoire de Parasitologie et d’Ecologie, D´epartement de Biologie et Physiologie Animales, Universit´e de Yaound´e I, BP 812, Yaound´e, Cameroon Correspondence should be addressed to Maarten P. M. Vanhove,
[email protected] Received 15 December 2010; Revised 21 February 2011; Accepted 19 April 2011 Academic Editor: Stephan Koblmuller¨ Copyright © 2011 Antoine Pariselle et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We discuss geographical distribution and phylogeny of Dactylogyridea (Monogenea) parasitizing Cichlidae to elucidate their hosts’ history. Although mesoparasitic Monogenea (Enterogyrus spp.) show typical vicariant distribution, ectoparasitic representatives from different continents are not considered sister taxa, hence their distribution cannot result from vicariance alone.