Species Gonocerca phycidis Manter, 1925

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Regional Maps

• Gonocerca phycidis Manter, H.W. 1925. Some marine fish trematodes of Maine. Journal of Parasitology 12: 11-18, pl. ii [15].

  Type host:

   Urophycis chuss (Walbaum, 1792) [PHYCIDAE]

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Coryphaenoides armatus (Hector, 1875) [MACROURIDAE] Abyssal Grenadier (this species not recorded in the Australian fauna, so may be a misidentification); Cyttus traversi Hutton, 1872 [CYTTIDAE] King Dory; Cyttus novaezealandiae Arthur, 1885 [CYTTIDAE] New Zealand Dory; Neocyttus rhomboidalis Gilchrist, 1906 [OREOSOMATIDAE] Spiky Oreo; Allocyttus verrucosus (Gilchrist, 1906) [OREOSOMATIDAE] Warty Oreodory).

General References

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

Prudhoe, S. & Bray, R.A. 1973. Digenetic trematodes from fishes. British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition Reports, Series B (Zoology and Botany) 8: 199-225 (Australian record)

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