Species Bivesicula cephalopholicola Cribb, Bray, Justine, Reimer, Sasal, Shirakashi & Cutmore, 2022

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• Bivesicula cephalopholicola Cribb, T.H., Bray, R.A., Justine, J-L., Reimer, J., Sasal, P., Shirakashi, S. & Cutmore, S.C. 2022. A world of taxonomic pain: cryptic species, inexplicable host-specificity, and host-induced morphological variation among species of Bivesicula Yamaguti, 1934 (Trematoda: Bivesiculidae) from Indo-Pacific Holocentridae, Muraenidae and Serranidae. Parasitology 149: 831–853 [845–846].
  Zoobank Registration Number:urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:197A691D-D110-48F1- 891D-961699662D7C

  Type data:

   Holotype QM G239681, Off Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
  Paratype(s) QM G239682–239694, same data as Holotype; NHM-UK 2022.2.15.1–2022.2.15.2, same data as Holotype.

  Type host:

   Cephalopholis boenak (Bloch, 1790) [SERRANIDAE]
• Bivesicula claviformis Yamaguti, 1934 [Synonym here is of B. claviformis (in part) of Justine et al. (2010)].

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: endoparasitic (host(s): Cephalopholis cyanostigma (Valenciennes, 1828) [SERRANIDAE] Bluespotted hind; Cephalopholis boenak (Bloch, 1790) [SERRANIDAE] Chocolate hind; Cephalopholis microprion (Bleeker, 1852) [SERRANIDAE] Freckled hind).

General References

Justine, J-L., Beveridge, I., Boxshall, G.A., Bray, R.A., Moravec, F., Trilles, J.P. & Whittington, I.D. 2010. An annotated list of parasites (Isopoda, Copepoda, Monogenea, Digenea, Cestoda and Nematoda) collected in groupers (Serranidae, Epinephelinae) in New Caledonia emphasizes parasite biodiversity in coral reef fish. Folia Parasitologica 57: 237–262

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