Species Copiatestes filiferus (Leuckart in Sars, 1885)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Distomum filiferus Leuckart, R. in Sars, G.O. 1885. Report on the Schizopoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 13(37): 1-228 pls 1-38.

Generic Combinations

• Copiatestes filiferus (Leuckart in Sars, 1885). —
  Gibson, D.I. & Bray, R.A. 1977. The Azygiidae, Hirudinellidae, Ptychogonimidae, Sclerodistomidae and Syncoeliidae of fishes from the north-east Atlantic. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 32: 167-245

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Norfolk Island Province (21), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Thyrsites atun (Euphrasen, 1791) [GEMPYLIDAE] Snoek; Centroberyx gerrardi (Günther, 1887) [BERYCIDAE] Bight Redfish; Trachurus declivis (Jenyns, 1841) [CARANGIDAE] Common Jack Mackerel; Seriolella brama (Günther, 1860) [CENTROLOPHIDAE] Common Warehou; Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758) [SCOMBRIDAE] Skipjack Tuna).

General References

Korotaeva, V.D. 1975. [Contributions to the fauna of helminths and parasitic crustaceans of marine commercial fishes of Australian and New Zealand waters]. Trudy Biologopochvenn'i Institut, Vladivostock N.S. 26: 46-60 (Australian record)

Lebedev, B.I. 1968. [Helminth fauna of carangid fish in the Pacific Ocean] (In Russian). Soobshcheniya Dal'nevostochnogo Filiala im. B. L. Komarova Akademii Nauk SSR 26: 80-85 (Australian record)

Lebedev, B.I. 1968. [On the morphology and taxonomy of trematodes of the sub-family Syncoelinae Looss, 1899]. pp. 65-71 in Skryabin, K. I. & Mamaev, Yu.L. (eds). Helminths of animals in the Pacific Ocean. Moscow : Izdat Nauka. (Australian record)

Lester, R.J.G., Barnes, A. & Habib, G. 1985. Parasites of skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus pelamis: fishery implications. Fishery Bulletin 83: 343-356 (Australian record)

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