Species Hurleytrematoides fijiensis Nahhas & Grewal, 1999

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• Hurleytrematoides fijiensis Nahhas, F.M. & Grewal, A. 1999. Digenetic trematodes from marine fishes of Fiji: Subfamily Hurleytrematinae (Family Monorchiidae): a review and description of four new species of Hurleytrematoides. pp. 617-631 in Séret, B. & Sire, J.-Y. (eds). Proceedings of the 5th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference (Nouméa, 3–8 November, 1997), Paris. Paris : Society Française d’Ichthyologie and Institut de Rechereche pour Développment.

  Type data:

   Holotype USNPC 87585, Laucala Bay, Suva, Fiji.
  Paratype(s) BMNH 1997.12.2.1, Laucala Bay, Suva, Fiji; HWML 39570, Laucala Bay, Suva, Fiji.

  Type host:

   Heniochus acuminatus (Linnaeus, 1758) [CHAETODONTIDAE]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Coradion altivelis McCulloch, 1916 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Highfin Coralfish; Chaetodon citrinellus Cuvier, 1831 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Speckled Butterflyfish; Chaetodon kleinii Bloch, 1790 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Sunburst Butterflyfish).

General References

McNamara, M.K.A. & Cribb, T.H. 2011. Taxonomy, host specificity and dietary implications of Hurleytrematoides (Digenea: Monorchiidae) from chaetodontid fishes on the Great Barrier Reef. Parasitology International 60: 255-269 (Australian record)

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