Species Allopodocotyle epinepheli (Yamaguti, 1942)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Podocotyle epinepheli Yamaguti, S. 1942. Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 39. Trematodes of fishes mainly from Naha. Transactions of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 3: 329-398.

  Type host:

   Epinephelus chlorostigma Valenciennes, 1828 [SERRANIDAE]

Generic Combinations

• Allopodocotyle epinepheli (Yamaguti, 1942). —
  Pritchard, M.H. 1966. A revision of the genus Podocotyle (Trematoda: Opocoelidae). Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik 93: 158-172, 2 figs

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Epinephelus fasciatus (Forsskål, 1775) [SERRANIDAE] Blacktip Grouper; Epinephelus quoyanus (Valenciennes, 1830) [SERRANIDAE] Longfin Grouper).

General References

Bray, R.A. & Cribb, T.H. 1989. Digeneans of the family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925 from the southern Great Barrier Reef, including a new genus and three new species. Journal of Natural History 23: 429-473 (Australian record)

Rigby, M.C., Holmes, J.C., Cribb, T.H. & Morand, S. 1997. Patterns of species diversity in the gastrointestinal helminths of a coral reef fish, Epinephelus merra (Serranidae), from French Polynesia and the South Pacific Ocean. Canadian Journal of Zoology 75: 1818-1827 (Australian record)

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