Species Hurleytrematoides zebrasomae Nahhas & Grewal, 1999

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• Hurleytrematoides zebrasomae 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 87583, Laucala Bay, Suva, Fiji.

  Type host:

   Zebrasoma scopas (Cuvier, 1829) [ACANTHURIDAE]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Heniochus chrysostomus Cuvier, 1831 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Threeband pennantfish; Heniochus varius (Cuvier, 1829) [CHAETODONTIDAE] Horned Bannerfish; Chelmon marginalis Richardson, 1842 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Margined Coralfish; Heniochus monoceros Cuvier, 1831 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Masked Bannerfish; Heniochus acuminatus (Linnaeus, 1758) [CHAETODONTIDAE] Pennant Coralfish).

General References

McNamara, M. K. A.; Adlard, R. D.; Bray, R. A.; Sasal, P.; Cribb, T. H. 2012. Monorchiids (Platyhelminthes: Digenea) of chaetodontid fishes (Perciformes): Biogeographical patterns in the tropical Indo-West Pacific. Parasitology International 61(2): 288–306 [293]

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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