Species Aethon morelandi Hewitt, 1968

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aethon morelandi Hewitt, G.C. 1968. Some New Zealand parasitic Copepoda of the family Anthosomidae. Zoology Publications from Victoria University of Wellington 47: 1-31.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Nemadactylus valenciennesi Whitley, 1937 Blue Morwong; Nemadactylus macropterus Forster, 1801 Jackass Morwong).

General References

Boxshall, G.A., Bernot, J.P., Barton, D.P., Diggles, B.K., Yong, R.Q-Y., Atkinson-Coyle, T. & Hutson, K.S. 2020. Parasitic copepods of the family Lernanthropidae Kabata, 1979 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida) from Australian fishes, with descriptions of seven new species. Zootaxa 4736(1): 1-103 [13, Fig 5]

History of changes