Species Helicometra fasciata (Rudolphi, 1819)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Distoma fasciata Rudolphi, C.A. 1819. Synopsis entozoorum cui accedunt mantissa duplex et indices locupletissimi. Berolini : Augustus Rücker 811 pp.

Generic Combinations

• Helicometra fasciata (Rudolphi, 1819). —
  Odhner, T. 1902. Mittheilungen zur Kenntnis der Distomum. II. 1. Drei neue Distomen aus der Gallenblase von Nilfischen. 2. Deropristis n. g.. 3. Helicometra n. g. Allocreadiinarum. Centralblatt für Bakteriologie 36: 152-162, 3 text-figs

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Parapercis nebulosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) [PINGUIPEDIDAE] Barred Sandperch; Coris batuensis (Bleeker, 1856) [LABRIDAE] Batu Coris; Gomphosus varius Lacepède, 1801 [LABRIDAE] Bird Wrasse; Epinephelus fasciatus (Forsskål, 1775) [SERRANIDAE] Blacktip Grouper; Oxycheilinus digramma (Lacepède, 1801) [LABRIDAE] Cheeklined Wrasse; Cheilinus chlorourus (Bloch, 1791) [LABRIDAE] Floral Wrasse; Centropogon australis (White, 1790) [TETRAROGIDAE] Fortescue; Rhabdosargus sarba (Forsskål, 1775) [SPARIDAE] Goldlined Seabream; Pseudolabrus guentheri Bleeker, 1862 [LABRIDAE] Günther's Wrasse; Epinephelus merra Bloch, 1793 [SERRANIDAE] Honeycomb Grouper; Thalassoma jansenii (Bleeker, 1856) [LABRIDAE] Jansen's Wrasse; Pseudorhombus arsius (Hamilton, 1822) [PARALICHTHYIDAE] Largetooth Flounder; Epinephelus quoyanus (Valenciennes, 1830) [SERRANIDAE] Longfin Grouper; Thalassoma lunare (Linnaeus, 1758) [LABRIDAE] Moon Wrasse; Cheilinus fasciatus (Bloch, 1791) [LABRIDAE] Redbreasted Wrasse; Thalassoma hardwicke (Bennett, 1830) [LABRIDAE] Sixbar Wrasse; Antennarius striatus (Shaw, 1794) [ANTENNARIIDAE] Striated Frogfish; Microcanthus strigatus (Cuvier, 1831) [KYPHOSIDAE] Stripey; Ostorhinchus limenus (Randall & Hoese, 1988) [APOGONIDAE] Sydney Cardinalfish; Neosebastes thetidis (Waite, 1899) [NEOSEBASTIDAE] Thetis Fish; Stethojulis strigiventer (Bennett, 1833) [LABRIDAE] Three-ribbon Wrasse; Cheilinus trilobatus Lacepède, 1801 [LABRIDAE] Tripletail Wrasse; Acanthopagrus australis (Günther, 1859) [SPARIDAE] Yellowfin Bream).

General References

Aken'Ova, T.O., Cribb, T.H. & Bray, R.A. 2006. Helicometra Odhner, 1902 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) in Australian waters: problems of species identification and a description of H. sprenti n. sp. Systematic Parasitology 67: 17-27 (Australian record)

Bray, R.A. & Cribb, T.H. 1989. Digeneans of the family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925 from the southern Great Barrier Reef, including a new genus and three new species. Journal of Natural History 23: 429-473 (Australian record)

Crowcroft, P.W. 1947. Some digenetic trematodes from fishes of shallow Tasmanian waters. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 81: 5-25 (Australian record)

Munoz, G., Grutter, A.S. & Cribb, T.H. 2006. Endoparasite communities of five fish species (Labridae : Cheilininae) from Lizard Island: how important is the ecology and phylogeny of the hosts? Parasitology 132: 363-374 (Australian record)

Munoz, G., Grutter, A.S. & Cribb, T.H. 2007. Structure of the parasite communities of a coral reef fish assemblage (Labridae): Testing ecological and phylogenetic host factors. Journal of Parasitology 93: 17-30 (Australian record)

Munoz, G. & Cribb, T.H. 2006. Parasite communities and diet of Coris batuensis (Pisces: Labridae) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 52: 191-198 (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)

Rigby, M.C., Holmes, J.C., Cribb, T.H. & Morand, S. 1997. Patterns of species diversity in the gastrointestinal helminths of a coral reef fish, Epinephelus merra (Serranidae), from French Polynesia and the South Pacific Ocean. Canadian Journal of Zoology 75: 1818-1827 (Australian record)

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