Species Acanthoplacatus brauni Ernst, Jones & Whittington, 2001

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• Acanthoplacatus brauni Ernst, I., Jones, M.K. & Whittington, I.D. 2001. A new genus of viviparous gyrodactylid (Monogenea) from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia with descriptions of seven new species. Journal of Natural History 35: 313-340 [325].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM G215979, Heron Island, Qld.
  Paratype(s) QM 215980-1, Heron Island, Qld.

  Type host:

   Siganus corallinus (Valenciennes, 1835) [SIGANIDAE]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Definitive: ectoparasitic (host(s): Siganus corallinus (Valenciennes, 1835) [SIGANIDAE] Coral Rabbitfish).

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