Species Erilepturus hamati (Yamaguti, 1934)

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• Ectenurus hamati Yamaguti, S. 1934. Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 2. Trematodes of Fishes, I. Japanese Journal of Zoology 5(3): 249-541 [462].

  Type host:

   Seriola quinqueradiata Temminck & Schlegel, 1845 [CARANGIDAE]

Generic Combinations

• Erilepturus hamati (Yamaguti, 1934).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Arripis georgianus (Valenciennes, 1831) [ARRIPIDAE] Australian Herring; Platycephalus fuscus Cuvier, 1829 [PLATYCEPHALIDAE] Dusky Flathead; Arripis trutta (Forster, 1801) [ARRIPIDAE] Eastern Australian Salmon; Scomberomorus guttatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) [SCOMBRIDAE] Indo-Pacific King Mackerel (as Scomber guttatus; this species is not recorded in the Australian fauna, so may be a misidentification); Pseudorhombus arsius (Hamilton, 1822) [PARALICHTHYIDAE] Largetooth Flounder; Platycephalus arenarius Ramsay & Ogilby, 1886 [PLATYCEPHALIDAE] Northern Sand Flathead; Platycephalus bassensis Cuvier, 1829 [PLATYCEPHALIDAE] Southern Sand Flathead; Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1766) [POMATOMIDAE] Tailor; Pseudorhombus dupliciocellatus Regan, 1905 [PARALICHTHYIDAE] Three Twinspot Flounder; Sillago maculata Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 [SILLAGINIDAE] Trumpeter Whiting; Seriola lalandi Valenciennes, 1833 [CARANGIDAE] Yellowtail Amberjack; Lates calcarifer (Bloch, 1790) [CENTROPOMIDAE]; Lutjanus carponotatus (Richardson, 1842) [LUTJANIDAE]; Platycephalus endrachtensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 [PLATYCEPHALIDAE]; Sillago analis Whitley, 1943 [SILLAGINIDAE]; Sillago ciliata Cuvier, 1829 [SILLAGINIDAE]; Platycephalus longispinis Macleay, 1884 [PLATYCEPHALIDAE]; Platycephalus richardsoni Castelnau, 1872 [PLATYCEPHALIDAE]; Sphyraena novaehollandiae Günther, 1860 [SPHYRAENIDAE]).

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. Hemiuridae (Digenea) from marine fishes of the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. Systematic Parasitology 25: 37-62 (Australian record)

Hooper, J.N.A. 1983. Parasites of estuarine and oceanic flathead fishes (Family Platcephalidae) from northern New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology 90: 1-69 (Australian record)

Hutson, K., Ernst, I., Mooney, A.J. & Whittington, I.D. 2007. Metazoan parasite assemblages of wild Seriola lalandi (Carangidae) from eastern and southern Australia. Parasitology International 56: 95-105 (Australian record)

Korotaeva, V.D. 1974. [Helminths of some commercial marine fish of the sub-order Scomberoidei from the Australian region] (In Russian). Izvestiya Tikhookeanskogo Nauchno Issledovatel'skogo Instituta Rybnogo Khozyaistva i Okeanografii (TINRO) 88: 61-66 (Australian record)

Woolcock, V. 1935. Digenetic trematodes from some Australian fishes. Parasitology 27: 309-331 (Australian record)

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