Species Choanocotyle nematoides Jue Sue & Platt, 1998
- Choanocotyle nematoides Jue Sue, L. & Platt, T.R. 1998. Description and life-cycle of two new species of Choanocotyle n. g. (Trematoda: Plagiorchiida), parasites of Australian freshwater turtles, and the erection of the family Choanocotylidae. Systematic Parasitology 41: 47–61.
Type data:
Holotype QM G231991, Kholo, Brisbane River, Queensland [27°34'S, 152°45'E].
Paratype(s) QM G213992–G213993, same data as Holotype.Type host:
Emydura macquarii Gray, 1830 [CHELIDAE]
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)
Ecological Descriptors
Endoparasitic (host(s): Glyptophysa gibbosa (A. Gould, 1847) [PLANORBIDAE] Freshwater snail).