Species Aponurus laguncula Looss, 1907

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aponurus laguncula Looss, A. 1907. Zur Kenntniss der Distomen-familie Hemiuridae. Zoologischer Anzeiger 31: 585-620.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Platycephalus endrachtensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 [PLATYCEPHALIDAE] Bar-tailed Flathead; Platycephalus fuscus Cuvier, 1829 [PLATYCEPHALIDAE] Dusky Flathead; Pomacentrus moluccensis Bleeker, 1853 [POMACENTRIDAE] Lemon Damsel; Platycephalus longispinis Macleay, 1884 [PLATYCEPHALIDAE] Long-spined Flathead; Repomucenus limiceps (Ogilby, 1908) [CALLIONYMIDAE] Rough-head Dragonet; Platycephalus bassensis Cuvier, 1829 [PLATYCEPHALIDAE] Southern Sand Flathead; Platycephalus richardsoni Castelnau, 1872 [PLATYCEPHALIDAE] Tiger Flathead; Seriola lalandi Valenciennes, 1833 [CARANGIDAE] Yellowtail amberjack).

General References

Barker, S.C., Cribb, T.H., Bray, R.A. & Adlard, R.D. 1994. Host-parasite associations on a coral reef: pomacentrid fishes and digenean trematodes. International Journal for Parasitology 24: 643-647 (Australian record)

Bray, R.A., Cribb, T.H. & Barker, S.C. 1993. The Hemiuroidea (Digenea) of pomacentrid fishes (Perciformes) from Heron Island, Queensland, Australia. Systematic Parasitology 24: 159-184 (Australian record)

Hooper, J.N.A. 1983. Parasites of estuarine and oceanic flathead fishes (Family Platcephalidae) from northern New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology 90: 1-69 (Australian record)

Hutson, K., Ernst, I., Mooney, A.J. & Whittington, I.D. 2007. Metazoan parasite assemblages of wild Seriola lalandi (Carangidae) from eastern and southern Australia. Parasitology International 56: 95-105 (Australian record)

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