Species Cardicola forsteri Cribb, Daintith & Munday, 2000

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• Cardicola forsteri Cribb, T.H., Daintith, M. & Munday, B. 2000. A new blood-fluke, Cardicola forsteri, (Digenea : Sanguinicolidae) of southern blue-fin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) in aquaculture. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 124(2): 117-120.

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC28331 slide, Rabbit Island, South Australia [34°36'S, 135°59'E].
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC28332-28340 slides, Rabbit Island, South Australia [34°36'S, 135°59'E]; QM G 218017-21, Rabbit Island, South Australia [34°36'S, 135°59'E].

  Type host:

   Thunnus maccoyii (Castelnau, 1872) [SCOMBRIDAE] (Parasite from heart)

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Thunnus maccoyii (Castelnau, 1872) [SCOMBRIDAE] Southern Bluefin Tuna).

General References

Aiken, H.M., Bott, N.J., Mladineo, I., Montero, F.E., Nowak, B.F. & Hayward, C.J. 2007. Molecular evidence for cosmopolitan distribution of platyhelminth parasites of tunas (Thunnus spp.). Fish and Fisheries 8(3): 167-180

Aiken, H.M., Hayward, C.J. & Nowak, B.F. 2006. An epizootic and its decline of a blood fluke, Cardicola forsteri, in farmed southern bluefin tuna, Thunnus maccoyii. Aquaculture 254: 40-45

Colquitt, S.E., Munday, B.L. & Daintith, M. 2001. Pathological findings in southern bluefin tuna, Thunnus maccoyii (Castelnau), infected with Cardicola forsteri (Cribb, Daintith & Munday, 2000) (Digenea: Sanguinicolidae), a blood fluke. Journal of Fish Diseases 24: 225-229

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