Species Taeniacanthus mcgroutheri Tang., Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2011

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• Taeniacanthus mcgroutheri Tang, D., Uyeno, D. & Nagasawa, K. 2011. Parasitic copepods of the family Taeniacanthidae (Crustacea) from triggerfishes (Teleostei, Balistidae) and filefishes (Teleostei, Monacanthidae) collected in the Indo-West Pacific region, with descriptions of two new species of Taeniacanthus Sumpf, 1871. Zootaxa 3103: 33-56 [48].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM C38683 ♀, Australia, Western Australia, Exmouth Gulf
  Comment: 24 ♀ paratypes held at the WAM; divided between six different reg. nos.

  Type host:

   Monacanthus chinensis (Osbeck) [Monacanthidae]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Darwin Habour (NT), Exmouth Gulf (WA), Cockburn Sound (WA), Broome (WA)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Monacanthus chinensis (Osbeck) [MONACANTHIDAE] Filefish; Paramonacanthus choirocephalus (Bleeker) [MONACANTHIDAE] Filefish).

Extra Ecological Information

Found on the orbit of Filefish spp.

Associated Fauna References

Tang, D., Uyeno, D. & Nagasawa, K. 2011. Parasitic copepods of the family Taeniacanthidae (Crustacea) from triggerfishes (Teleostei, Balistidae) and filefishes (Teleostei, Monacanthidae) collected in the Indo-West Pacific region, with descriptions of two new species of Taeniacanthus Sumpf, 1871. Zootaxa 3103: 33-56 [55] (Paramonacanthus choirocephalus; Monacanthus chinensis)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	COPEPODA H. Milne Edwards, 1840	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
26-Jun-2023	POECILOSTOMATOIDA Thorell, 1859	01-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
		29-Apr-2012	ADDED