Species Carettacola hawaiiensis Dailey, Fast & Balazs, 1991

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• Carettacola hawaiiensis Dailey, M.D., Fast, M.L. & Balazs, G.H. 1991. Carettacola hawaiiensis n. sp. (Trematoda: Spirorchidae) from the Green Turtle, Chelonia mydas, in Hawaii. Journal of Parasitology 77(6): 906–909.

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 81897, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii.
  Paratype(s) USNM 81897 (Possibly also from Kahului Bay, Maui, Hawaii; article was not clear.), Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii; HWML 33435 (Possibly also from Kahului Bay, Maui, Hawaii; article was not clear), Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii.

  Type host:

   Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) [CHELONIIDAE]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: endoparasitic (host(s): Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) [CHELONIIDAE] Green sea turtle).

General References

Chapman, P.A., Cribb, T.H., Flint, M., Traub, R.J., Blair, D., Kyaw-Tanner, M.T. & Mills, P.C. 2019. Spirorchiidiasis in marine turtles: the current state of knowledge. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 133: 217–245

Chapman, P.A., Owen, H., Flint, M., Soares Magalhães, F.J., Traub, R.J., Cribb, T.H., Kyaw-Tanner, M.T. & Mills, P.C. 2017. Molecular epidemiology and pathology of spirorchiid infection in green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas). International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 6: 39–47

Chapman, P.A., Traub, R.J., Kyaw-Tanner, M.T., Owen, H., Flint, M., Cribb, T.H. & Mills, P.C. 2016. Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism for the identification of spirorchiid ova in tissues from the green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas. PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science) 11(8)

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