Species Cainocreadium epinepheli (Yamaguti, 1934)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helicometra epinepheli Yamaguti, S. 1934. Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 2. Trematodes of Fishes, I. Japanese Journal of Zoology 5(3): 249-541 [298].

  Type host:

   Epinephelus akaara (Temminck & Schlegel, 1842) [SERRANIDAE]

Generic Combinations

• Cainocreadium epinepheli (Yamaguti, 1934). —
  Durio, W.O. & Manter, H.W. 1968. Some digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of New Caledonia. Part II. Opecoelidae and Lepocreadiidae. Journal of Parasitology 54: 747-756, 19 figs

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Epinephelus merra Bloch, 1793 [SERRANIDAE] Honeycomb Grouper; Epinephelus quoyanus (Valenciennes, 1830) [SERRANIDAE] Longfin Grouper).

General References

Bray, R.A. & Cribb, T.H. 1989. Digeneans of the family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925 from the southern Great Barrier Reef, including a new genus and three new species. Journal of Natural History 23: 429-473 (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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