Species Accacoelium contortum (Rudolphi, 1819)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Distoma contortum Rudolphi, C.A. 1819. Synopsis entozoorum cui accedunt mantissa duplex et indices locupletissimi. Berolini : Augustus Rücker 811 pp.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758) [MOLIDAE] Ocean Sunfish).

Metacercariae: parasitic (host(s): Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758) [PHYSALIIDAE] Bluebottle; Janthina janthina (Linnaeus, 1758) [EPITONIIDAE] Violet Snail).

General References

Louvard, C., Yong, R.Q.-Y., Cutmore, S.C. & Cribb, T.H. 2023. The oceanic pleuston community as a potentially crucial life-cycle pathway for pelagic fish-infecting parasitic worms. International Journal for Parasitology [Published online first on 15 Nov 2023] (Queensland records)

Macleay, W. 1877. Notes on the entozoa and epizoa taken from a sunfish. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 12-13 (Australian record)

History of changes