Species Benedenia fieldsi Deveney & Whittington, 2010

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• Benedenia fieldsi Deveney, M.R. & Whittington, I.D 2010. Three new species of Benedenia Diesing, 1858 from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia with a key to species of the genus. Zootaxa 2348: 1-22 [6].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM G 218896, Heron Island, Queensland, Australia [23°27΄S, 151°55΄E].
  Paratype(s) QM G 218897–906 10 slides, 10 specimens (ex fins C. boenak), Heron Island.

  Type host:

   Cephalopholis boenak (Bloch, 1790) [Serranidae] (ex dorsal fin)

Introduction

Also on fins of several serranid aquarium fish, see Deveney & Whittington (2010)

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Cephalopholis cyanostigma (Kuhl & Hasselt, 1828) [SERRANIDAE] Bluespotted Rockcod (ex dorsal fin); Cephalopholis boenak (Bloch, 1790) [SERRANIDAE] Brownbarred Rockcod; Cephalopholis miniata (Forsskål) [SERRANIDAE] Coral Rockcod (ex dorsal fin)).

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