Species Creniola laticauda (Schioedte & Meinert, 1881)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nerocila laticauda Schioedte, J.C. & Meinert, F. 1881. Symbolae ad monographium Cymothoarum Crustaeorum Isopodum familiae II. Anilocridae. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift. Kjøbenhavn 3 13: 1-166, pls 1-10 [81].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP Is.263 ♀, southeast Australia (as Westermann, Novae-Hollandiae).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Lower E coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast
  • New South Wales
  • South Australia
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, ectoparasitic, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Parasitic on Platycephalidae, Zeidae and 'stingray'.

 

General References

Bruce, N.L. 1987. Australian species of Nerocila Leach, 1818, and Creniola n. gen. (Isopoda: Cymothoidae), crustacean parasites of marine fishes. Records of the Australian Museum 39: 355-412 (figures, description, distribution, hosts)

Hale, H.M. 1926. Review of Australian isopods of the cymothoid group. Pt II. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 50: 201-234, pls 26 & 27 (distribution)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022		05-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		06-May-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		29-Jun-2010	MODIFIED
		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED