Species Bivesicula claviformis Yamaguti, 1934

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• Bivesicula claviformis Yamaguti, S. 1934. Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 2. Trematodes of Fishes, I. Japanese Journal of Zoology 5(3): 249-541.

  Type host:

   Seriola quinqueradiata Temminck & Schlegel, 1845 [CARANGIDAE]
• Bivesicula epinepheli Yamaguti, S. 1938. Studies on the Helminth Fauna of Japan. Part 21. Trematodes of fishes, iv. Kyoto 139 pp. [77–78].
• Bivesicula xishaensis Gu, C.D. & Shen, J. 1983. Digenetic trematodes of fishes from the Xisha Islands, Guangdong Province, China. I. Studia Marina Sinica 20: 157–184 (In Chinese) [171–172].

Introduction

ITS2 data for Bivesicula claviformis is identical to that of Bivesicula sheni; data from Cribb et al. (1998) and Olson et al. (2003) which incorporated only ITS2 data as part of their species recognition can not be considered accurate here. Type-host also unlikely to be accurate.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Epinephelus fasciatus (Forsskål, 1775) [SERRANIDAE] Blacktip Grouper; Epinephelus tauvina (Forsskål, 1775) [SERRANIDAE] Greasy grouper; Epinephelus merra Bloch, 1793 [SERRANIDAE] Honeycomb Grouper; Sargocentron spiniferum (Forsskål, 1775) [HOLOCENTRIDAE] Sabre squirrelfish; Sargocentron caudimaculatum (Rüppell, 1838) [HOLOCENTRIDAE] Silverspot squirrelfish).

General References

Cribb, T.H., Anderson, G.R., Adlard, R.D. & Bray, R.A. 1998. A DNA-based demonstration of a three-host life-cycle for the Bivesiculidae (Platyhelminthes: Digenea). International Journal for Parasitology 28: 1791-1795 (Australian record)

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 [838]

Cribb, T.H., Bray, R.A. & Barker, S.C. 1994. Bivesiculidae and Haplosplanchnidae (Digenea) from fishes of the southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Systematic Parasitology 28: 81-97 (Australian record)

Olson, P.D., Cribb, T.H., Tkach, V.V., Bray, R.A. & Littlewood, D.T.J. 2003. Phylogeny and classification of the Digenea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda). International Journal for Parasitology 33: 733-755 (Australian record)

Rigby, M.C., Holmes, J.C., Cribb, T.H. & Morand, S. 1997. Patterns of species diversity in the gastrointestinal helminths of a coral reef fish, Epinephelus merra (Serranidae), from French Polynesia and the South Pacific Ocean. Canadian Journal of Zoology 75: 1818-1827 (Australian record)

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