Species Copiatestes thyrsitae (Crowcroft, 1948)

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• Capiatestes thyrsitae Crowcroft, P.W. 1948. A new digenetic trematode from the Barracouta (Syncoeliidae-Digenea). Papers of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1947: 49-57, figs 1-9.

  Type host:

   Thyrsites atun (Euphrasen, 1791) [GEMPYLIDAE]

Generic Combinations

• Copiatestes thyrsitae (Crowcroft, 1948). —
  Manter, H.W. 1954. Some digenetic trematodes from fishes of New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 82: 475-568

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Cyttus traversi Hutton, 1872 [CYTTIDAE] King Dory; Thyrsites atun (Euphrasen, 1791) [GEMPYLIDAE] Snoek).

General References

Korotaeva, V.D. 1971. [Helminth fauna of the commercial marine fishes of sub-order Trichiuroidei in the Australia — New Zealand region]. Izvestiya Tikhookeanskogo Nauchno Issledovatel'skogo Instituta Rybnogo Khozyaistva i Okeanografii (TINRO) 75: 69-84 (Australian record)

Korotaeva, V.D. 1982. The fauna of trematodes in fishes of the order Zeiformes. Parazitologiya 16: 464-468 (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)

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