Genus Goussia Labbé, 1896

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• Goussia Labbé, A. 1896. Recherches zoologiques, cytologiques et biologiques sur les Coccidies. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 3(4): 517-654 [551-552].

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from eastern Australia.

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Acanthopagrus australis (Günther, 1859) [SPARIDAE] Common Marine Bream, Yellowfin Bream (liver); Gambusia holbrooki (Girard, 1859) [POECILIIDAE] Eastern Gambusia (intestine); Crocodylus porosus Schneider, 1801 [CROCODYLIDAE] Estuarine Crocodile, Salt Water Crocodile (intestines); Anguilla reinhardtii Steindachner, 1867 [ANGUILLIDAE] Long-finned Eel, Marbled Eel (syn. A. mauritiana; faeces, gut); Anguilla australis Richardson, 1841 [ANGUILLIDAE] Short-finned Eel (gut); Pseudocaranx dentex (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) [CARANGIDAE] Silver Trevally (liver); Limnodynastes tasmaniensis Günther, 1858 [MYOBATRACHIDAE] Spotted Grass Frog; Rhabdosargus sarba (Forsskål, 1775) [SPARIDAE] Tarwhine (liver)).

Extra Ecological Information

Unidentified species of Goussia have been found in the listed parasite hosts.

General References

Ladds, P. 2009. Pathology of Australian Native Wildlife. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 640 pp.

Lom, J., Rohde, K., & Dykova, I. 1992. Studies on protozoan parasite of Australian fishes I. New species of the genera Coccomyxa Leger et Hesse. 1907, Ortholinea Shulman, 1962 and Kudoa Meglitsch, 1947 (Myxozoa, Myxosporea). Folia Parasitologica. Prague 39: 289-306

Molnar, K. & Rohde, K. 1988. New coccidians from freshwater fishes of Australia. Journal of Fish Diseases 11: 161-169

Molnar, K. & Rohde, K. 1988. Seven new coccidian species from marine fishes in Australia. Systematic Parasitology 11: 19-29

Owens, L., Glazebrook, J.S., Ladds, P.W. & Campbell, R.S.F. 1988. Disease in tropical mariculture in Australia. pp. 375-416 in Fish diseases. Refresher course for veterinarians. Post Graduate Committee in Veterinary Science: University of Sydney.

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