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Species Cirracanthus monacanthi (Yamaguti, 1939)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Port Stephens (NSW), Lake Macquarie (NSW), White Bay (NSW), Port Hacking (NSW), off Sydney (NSW), Manly (NSW), Iluka (NSW), Melville Island (NT), North Cape Wessels (NT), Lizard Island area (QLD), Booby Island (at the tip of Cape York Peninsula, QLD. This island in the Torres Strait, 32 km west of Thursday Island and 23 kmwest of Prince of Wales Island), Island Head Entrance (QLD), Fraser Island (QLD), Point Quobba (WA), Shark Bay (WA), Exmouth Gulf (WA), Cockburn Sound (WA), Learmonth (WA), Lacepede Island (WA), Bomparte Archipelago (WA), NW Bassett-Smith Shoals (WA) and the Arafua Sea


Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): [MONACANTHIDAE] Filefish).

Extra Ecological Information

Found attached to the branchial cavity wall of Filefish spp.

Associated Fauna References

Tang, D., Uyeno, D. & Nagasawa, K. 2011. Parasitic copepods of the family Taeniacanthidae (Crustacea) from triggerfishes (Teleostei, Balistidae) and filefishes (Teleostei, Monacanthidae) collected in the Indo-West Pacific region, with descriptions of two new species of Taeniacanthus Sumpf, 1871. Zootaxa 3103: 33-56 [54] ([MONACANTHIDAE] Filefish)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023 COPEPODA H. Milne Edwards, 1840 13-Dec-2024 MODIFIED
26-Jun-2023 POECILOSTOMATOIDA Thorell, 1859 13-Dec-2024 MODIFIED
30-Apr-2012 ADDED