Genus Ambitalveolus Caira & Jensen, 2022

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ambitalveolus Caira, J.N. & Jensen, K. 2022. Diversity and phylogenetic relationships of ‘tetraphyllidean’ Clade 3 (Cestoda) based on new material from orectolobiform sharks in Australia and Taiwan. Folia Parasitologica 69(010) [3].
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  Type species:

   Ambitalveolus costelloae Caira & Jensen, 2022 by original designation.

Introduction

This genus currently resolves within the unnamed 'Clade 3' of Caira & Jensen (2017).

Jensen & Bullard (2010) proposed a classification scheme of 15 metacestode types/forms, of which eight were genetically matched to known genera. The form then identified as 'Larval Type X', has been provided the generic identity of Ambitalveolus for Australian specimens by Cutmore et al. (2024), expanded upon the work of Jensen & Bullard (2010), and focused on metacestodes collected from Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia, which has provided recognised teleost hosts for the genus.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Metacestodes: endoparasitic (host(s): Pseudolabrus guentheri Bleeker, 1862 [LABRIDAE] Günther's wrasse; Thalassoma lunare (Linnaeus, 1758) [LABRIDAE] Moon wrasse).

General References

Caira, J.N. & Jensen, K. (eds.) 2017. Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008–2017): Tapeworms from Vertebrate Bowels of the Earth. Lawrence, KS, USA : University of Kansas, Natural History Museum Vol. Special Publication No. 25.

Cutmore, S.C., Bennett, M.B. & Cribb, T.H. 2024. Morphological and molecular identification of metacestodes infecting teleost fishes of Moreton Bay, Australia. Systematic Parasitology 101: 57

Jensen, K. & Bullard, S.A. 2010. Characterization of a diversity of tetraphyllidean and rhinebothriidean cestode larval types, with comments on host associations and life-cycles. International Journal for Parasitology 40: 889–910

History of changes