Species Dinurus longisinus Looss, 1907

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dinurus longisinus Looss, A. 1907. Zur Kenntniss der Distomen-familie Hemiuridae. Zoologischer Anzeiger 31: 585-620.

  Type host:

   Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758 [CORYPHAENIDAE]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Carangoides gymnostethus (Cuvier, 1833) [CARANGIDAE] Bludger; Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758 [CORYPHAENIDAE] Mahi Mahi; Seriola lalandi Valenciennes, 1833 [CARANGIDAE] Yellowtail Amberjack).

General References

Bray, R.A. 1990. Hemiuridae (Digenea) from marine fishes of the southern Indian Ocean: Dinurinae, Elytrophallinae, Glomericirrinae and Plerurinae. Systematic Parasitology 17: 183-217 (Australian record)

Bray, R.A., Cribb, T.H. & Barker, S.C. 1993. The Hemiuroidea (Digenea) of pomacentrid fishes (Perciformes) from Heron Island, Queensland, Australia. Systematic Parasitology 24: 159-184 (Australian record)

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