Species Apatemon gracilis (Rudolphi, 1819)

Museums

Regional Maps

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

  Type data:

   Status unknown, No details provided, Austria.

  Type host:

   Mergus merganser Linnaeus, 1758 [ANATIDAE] (Reported as Mergi merganseris)

Generic Combinations

• Apatemon gracilis (Rudolphi, 1819). —
  Szidat, L. 1928. Zur Revision Trematodengattung Strigea Abildgaard. Centralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde und Infektionskrankheiten I. Abt 105: 204-215

Distribution

States

Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, Tas, Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Galaxiella pusilla (Mack, 1936) [GALAXIIDAE] Eastern dwarf galaxias; Galaxias auratus Johnston, 1883 [GALAXIIDAE] Golden galaxias; Galaxiella toourtkoourt Coleman & Raadik, 2015 [GALAXIIDAE] Little galaxias).

General References

Coleman, R.A. & Hoffman, A.A. 2016. Digenean trematode cysts within the heads of threatened Galaxiella species (Teleostei: Galaxiidae) from south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 64: 285–291

Smith, S.J. & Hickman, J.L. 1983. Two strigeoid trematodes, Apatemon (Apatemon) gracilis (Rudolphi, 1819) and Diplostomum (Dolichorchis) galaxiae n.sp., which encyst in the freshwater fish Galaxias auratus Johnston in Lake Crescent, Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 117: 21-39

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