Species Muraenicola botti Nolan & Cribb, 2010

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• Muraenicola botti Nolan, M.J. & Cribb, T.H. 2010. Two new species of flukes (Digenea: Bucephalidae: Prosorhynchinae) from the Western Moray Gymnothorax woodwardi (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) from off Western Australia, with replacement of the pre-occupied generic name Folliculovarium Gu & Shen, 1983. Systematic Parasitology 76: 81–92.

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM WAM V7525, Off Point Peron, WA, Australia [32°18′S, 115°38′E].
  Paratype(s) WAM WAM V7522; 7526, Off Point Peron, WA, Australia [32°18′S, 115°38′E].

  Type locality references:

  Nolan, M.J. & Cribb, T.H. 2010. Two new species of flukes (Digenea: Bucephalidae: Prosorhynchinae) from the Western Moray Gymnothorax woodwardi (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) from off Western Australia, with replacement of the pre-occupied generic name Folliculovarium Gu & Shen, 1983. Systematic Parasitology 76: 81–92.

  Type host:

   Gymnothorax woodwardi McCulloch [MURAENIDAE]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Gymnothorax woodwardi McCulloch [MURAENIDAE] Western moray).

Associated Fauna References

Nolan, M.J. & Cribb, T.H. 2010. Two new species of flukes (Digenea: Bucephalidae: Prosorhynchinae) from the Western Moray Gymnothorax woodwardi (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) from off Western Australia, with replacement of the pre-occupied generic name Folliculovarium Gu & Shen, 1983. Systematic Parasitology 76: 81–92 (Gymnothorax woodwardi)

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