Species Diploproctodaeum rutellum (Mamaev, 1970)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Caecobiporum rutellum Mamaev, Yu.L. 1970. [Helminths of some commercial fish from Tongking Bay]. pp. 127-190 in Oshmarin, P.G. [Helminths of Animals from South-East Asia]. Moskva : Nauka. [in Russian].

  Type host:

   Platax orbicularis (Forsskål, 1775) [Ephippidae] (first host listed)

Generic Combinations

• Diploproctodaeum rutellum (Mamaev, 1970). —
  Bray, R.A., Cribb, T.H. & Barker, S.C. 1996. Diploproctodaeinae (Lepocreadiidae) from the coastal fishes of Queensland, Australia, with a review of the subfamily. Journal of Natural History 30: 317-366

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Platax teira (Forsskål, 1775) [EPHIPPIDAE] Longfin Batfish).

General References

Bray, R.A., Cribb, T.H. & Justine, J.L. 2010. Diploproctodaeum spp. (Digenea: Lepocreadiidae) in Australian and New Caledonian waters including two new species from Tetraodontiformes and new records of related species. Acta Parasitologica 55: 313-326

Bray, R.A. & Cribb, T.H. 2003. Lepocreadiidae (Digenea) from the batfish of the genus Platax Cuvier (Teleostei: Ephippidae) from the southern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. Systematic Parasitology 55: 1-9

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