Genus Anchylodiscus Johnston & Tiegs, 1922

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• Anchylodiscus Johnston, T.H. & Tiegs, O.W. 1922. New gyrodactyloid trematodes from Australian fishes together with a reclassification of the super-family Gyrodactyloidea. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47: 83-131 [93].

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, SA, Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT) ; SA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP)

General References

Fletcher, A.S. & Whittington, I.D. 1998. A parasite-host checklist for Monogenea from freshwater fishes in Australia, with comments on biodiversity. Systematic Parasitology 41: 159-168 [161] (Australian records)

Johnston, T.H. & Tiegs, O.W. 1922. New gyrodactyloid trematodes from Australian fishes together with a reclassification of the super-family Gyrodactyloidea. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47: 83-131 (recorded Anchylodiscus sp. from Neosilurus hyrtili, Qld)

SCFH 1992. Report of AHC sub-committee on fish health. Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, March 5-6: Standing Committee on Agriculture. 1-233 pp. (reported Anchylodiscus sp. from Tandanus bostocki, WA)

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