Species Hexostoma thynni (Delaroche, 1811)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hexacotyle thynni Delaroche, F.E. 1811. Sur deux animaux vivant sur les branchies des poissons. Nuov. Bull. Sci. Soc. Philomath. Paris. 2 (44). 270-272 pp.

  Type data:

   
  Status unknown, AM 9225, Heron Island, Qld; USNM 74151 voucher, Heron Island, Qld.
• Hexostoma auxisi Palombi, A. 1943. Notizie elmintologiche. VIII. Le specie italiane del genere Hexostoma Raphinesque (= Hexacotyle Blainville). Annuario del Museo Zoologico della Reale Università de Napoli 7(18): 1-8.
• Hexostoma euthynni Meserve, F.G. 1938. List of twenty-two species of monogenetic trematodes from the South Pacific. Proceedings of the Minnesota Academy of Science 6: 58.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Heron Island (Qld); Port Lincoln (SA) — fish farm; Geraldton (WA) — wild caught.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: ectoparasitic (host(s): Euthynnus affinis (Cantor, 1850) [SCOMBRIDAE] Mackerel Tuna; Thunnus maccoyii (Castelnau, 1872) [SCOMBRIDAE] Southern Bluefin Tuna; Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788) [SCOMBRIDAE] Yellowfin Tuna).

 

General References

Aiken, H.M., Bott, N.J., Mladineo, I., Montero, F.E., Nowak, B.F. & Hayward, C.J. 2007. Molecular evidence for cosmopolitan distribution of platyhelminth parasites of tunas (Thunnus spp.). Fish and Fisheries 8(3): 167-180 (Australian host & locality record)

Rohde, K. 1978. Monogenea of Australian marine fishes. The genera Dionchus, Sibitrema and Hexostoma. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 24(4/6): 349-367 [362] (Redescription + Australian host & locality record)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Dec-2023	MONOGENEA	11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Storm Martin
04-Aug-2021	MONOGENEA	11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED
02-Nov-2018	MONOGENEA	11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED	Ms Jo Wood
27-Jul-2017	MONOGENEA	11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED	Ms Jo Wood
27-Jul-2017	POLYOPISTHOCOTYLEA	11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED
		11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED