Species Clavogalea trachinoti (Fischthal & Thomas, 1968)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stephanostomum trachinoti Fischthal, J.H. & Thomas, J.D. 1968. Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes from Ghana: families Acanthocolpidae, Bucephalidae, Didymozoidae. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington 35: 237-247, 11 figs [240].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNHC 63334, Cape Coast, Ghana.

  Type host:

   Trachinotus ovatus (Linnaeus, 1758) [Carangidae] (as Trachinotus glaucus)
• Opechona pseudobacillaris Fischthal, J.H. & Thomas, J.D. 1970. Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes from Ghana: Family Lepocreadiidae. Journal of Helminthology 44: 365-386.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bray, R.A. & Gibson, D.I. 1990. The Lepocreadiidae (Digenea) of fishes of the north-east Atlantic: review of the genera Opechona Looss, 1907 and Prodistomum Linton, 1910. Systematic Parasitology 15: 159-202
• Bray, R.A. & Cribb, T.H. 1998. Lepocreadiidae (Digenea) of Australian coastal fishes: new species of Opechona Looss, 1907, Lepotrema Ozaki, 1932 and Bianium Stunkard, 1930 and comments on other species reported for the first time or poorly known in Australian waters. Systematic Parasitology 41: 123-148

Generic Combinations

• Clavogalea trachinoti (Fischthal & Thomas, 1968).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Trachinotus botla (Shaw, 1803) [CARANGIDAE] Largespotted Dart; Trachinotus coppingeri Günther, 1884 [CARANGIDAE] Swallowtail Dart).

History of changes