Species Gyrodactylus anguillae Ergens, 1960

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• Gyrodactylus anguillae Ergens, R. 1960. The helminthofauna of some Albanian fishes. Ceskoslovenská Parasitologie 7: 49-90.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, QM G217347-8, SE and Central Qld and NSW.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Definitive: ectoparasitic (host(s): Anguilla reinhardtii Steindachner, 1867 [ANGUILLIDAE] Longfin Eel; Anguilla australis Richardson, 1841 [ANGUILLIDAE] Southern Shortfin Eel).

General References

Ernst, I., Fletcher, A. & Hayward, C. 2000. Gyrodactylus anguillae (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae) from anguillid eels (Anguilla australis and Anguilla reinhardtii) in Australia: a native or an exotic. Journal of Parasitology 86: 1152-1156 [1152] (Australian record)

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