Species Bianium plicitum (Linton, 1928)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Psilostomum plicitum Linton, E. 1928. Notes on trematode parasites of birds. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 73: 1-36, 11 pls.

  Type host:

   Larus argentatus Pontoppidan, 1763 [Laridae]
• Bianium concavum Stunkard, H.W. 1930. Another trematode with two anal openings. Anatomical Records 47: 363.
• Bianium adplicatum Manter, H.W. 1940. Digenetic trematodes of fishes from the Galapagos Islands and the neighbouring Pacific. Report of the Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions 2: 325-497, pls xxxii-l.
• Amarocotyle simonei Travassos, L., Teixeira de Freitas, J.F. & Bührnheim, P.F. 1965. Trematódeos de peixes do litoral capixaba: Amarocotyle simonei gen. n., sp. n., parasito de baiacu. Atas da Sociedade de Biologia do Rio de Janeiro 9: 69-72.
• Bianium madrasi Gupta, A.N. 1968. Studies on the genus Bianium Trematoda (Digenea) with description of three new species and discussion on status of genera Diploproctodaeum La Rue, 1926, Bianium Stunkard, 1930, and Diplocreadium Park, 1939. Japanese Journal of Parasitology 17: 139-146.
• Bianium dayawanense Shen, J. & Tong, Y.-Y. 1990. Studies on the digenetic trematodes of fishes from the Daya Bay (Trematoda). (In Chinese). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 15: 385-392.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bray, R.A., Cribb, T.H. & Barker, S.C. 1996. Diploproctodaeinae (Lepocreadiidae) from the coastal fishes of Queensland, Australia, with a review of the subfamily. Journal of Natural History 30: 317-366

Generic Combinations

• Diploproctodaeum plicitum (Linton, 1928). —
  Sogandares-Bernal, F. & Hutton, R.F. 1958. The status of the trematode genus Bianium Stunkard, 1930, a synonym of Diploproctodaeum La Rue, 1926. Journal of Parasitology 44: 566-567
• Bianium simonei (Travassos, Freitas & Bührnheim, 1965). —
  Yamaguti, S. 1971. Synopsis of digenetic trematodes of vertebrates. Tokyo : Keigaku Publishing Co. 2 vols pp. 1-1074.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Torquigener pleurogramma (Regan, 1903) [TETRAODONTIDAE] Weeping Toado; Torquigener whitleyi (Paradice, 1927) [TETRAODONTIDAE] Whitley's Toadfish).

General References

Bray, R.A. & Cribb, T.H. 1998. Lepocreadiidae (Digenea) of Australian coastal fishes: new species of Opechona Looss, 1907, Lepotrema Ozaki, 1932 and Bianium Stunkard, 1930 and comments on other species reported for the first time or poorly known in Australian waters. Systematic Parasitology 41: 123-148

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