Species Hornellobothrium gerdaae Mojica, Jensen & Caira, 2014

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• Hornellobothrium gerdaae Mojica, K.R., Jensen, K. & Caira, J.N. 2014. The Ocellated Eagle Ray, Aetobatus ocellatus (Myliobatiformes: Myliobatidae), from Borneo and Northern Australia as host of four new species of Hornellobothrium (Cestoda: Lecanicephalidea). Journal of Parasitology 100(4): 504-515 [505–506, figs. 1, 3A–I, 6A, B, G].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM G234349, Gulf of Carpentaria off Weipa, Queensland, Australia [12°35'11"S, 141°42'34"E].
  Paratype(s) QM G234350–234357 8 specimens; USNPC 10798 5 specimens; LRP 8431–8435 5 specimens.

  Type host:

   Aetobatus ocellatus (Kuhl, 1823) [MYLIOBATIDAE]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Aetobatus ocellatus (Kuhl, 1823) [MYLIOBATIDAE] Whitespotted Eagle Ray).

Extra Ecological Information

Found in the spiral intestine.

History of changes