Species Bivesiculoides atherinae Yamaguti, 1938

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• Bivesiculoides atherinae Yamaguti, S. 1938. Studies on the Helminth Fauna of Japan. Part 21. Trematodes of fishes, iv. Kyoto 139 pp. [78].

  Type host:

   Hypoatherina valenciennei (Bleeker, 1853) [Atherinidae] (as Atherina bleekeri)

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Plagiogeneion macrolepis McCulloch, 1914 [EMMELICHTHYIDAE] Bigscale Rubyfish; Cyttus traversi Hutton, 1872 [CYTTIDAE] King Dory; Cyttus australis (Richardson, 1843) [CYTTIDAE] Silver Dory).

General References

Korotaeva, V.D. 1982. The fauna of trematodes in fishes of the order Zeiformes. Parazitologiya 16: 464-468

Koryakovtseva, L.P. 1984. Morphological characteristics of trematodes from the family Bivesiculidae, parasites of marine fishes. Materialy Nauchnoi Konferentsii Vsesoyuznogo Obshchestva Gel'mintologov. 34: 29-34

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