Species Choanocotyle elegans Jue Sue & Platt, 1998

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• Choanocotyle elegans Jue Sue, L. & Platt, T.R. 1998. Description and life-cycle of two new species of Choanocotyle n. g. (Trematoda: Plagiorchiida), parasites of Australian freshwater turtles, and the erection of the family Choanocotylidae. Systematic Parasitology 41: 47–61.

  Type data:

   Holotype QM G213983, Lake Manchester, Queensland, Australia [27°29'S, 152°46'E].
  Paratype(s) QM G213984–G213987, same data as Holotype.

  Type host:

   Chelodina expansa Gray, 1857 [CHELIDAE]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Glyptophysa gibbosa (A. Gould, 1847) [PLANORBIDAE] Freshwater snail; Emydura macquarii (Gray, 1830) [CHELIDAE] Murray river turtle; Limnodynastes peronii (Duméril & Bibron, 1841) [LIMNODYNASTIDAE] Striped marsh frog).

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	TREMATODA	01-Jul-2024	MODIFIED
	TREMATODA	24-Aug-2023	ADDED