Species Hypocreadium patellare Yamaguti, 1938

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hypocreadium patellare Yamaguti, S. 1938. Studies on the Helminth Fauna of Japan. Part 21. Trematodes of fishes, iv. Kyoto 139 pp. [34].

  Type host:

   Stephanolepis cirrhifer (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850) [Monacanthidae] (as Monacanthus cirrhifer)
• Pseudocreadium patellare Manter, H.W. 1940. Digenetic trematodes of fishes from the Galapagos Islands and the neighbouring Pacific. Report of the Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions 2: 325-497, pls xxxii-l.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bray, R.A. & Cribb, T.H. 1998. Lepocreadiidae (Digenea) of Australian coastal fishes: new species of Opechona Looss, 1907, Lepotrema Ozaki, 1932 and Bianium Stunkard, 1930 and comments on other species reported for the first time or poorly known in Australian waters. Systematic Parasitology 41: 123-148

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Sufflamen chrysopterum (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) [BALISTIDAE] Halfmoon Triggerfish; Sufflamen fraenatum (Latreille, 1804) [BALISTIDAE] Masked Triggerfish; Abalistes stellatus (Anonymous, 1798) [BALISTIDAE] Starry Triggerfish; Balistoides viridescens (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) [BALISTIDAE] Titan Triggerfish).

General References

Bray, R.A., Cribb, T.H. & Justine, J.L. 2009. New observations on the genus Hypocreadium Ozaki, 1936 (Digenea: Lepocreadiidae) in the Indo-West Pacific region, including the description of one new species. Zootaxa 2110: 22-40

Bray, R.A. & Cribb, T.H. 1998. Lepocreadiidae (Digenea) of Australian coastal fishes: new species of Opechona Looss, 1907, Lepotrema Ozaki, 1932 and Bianium Stunkard, 1930 and comments on other species reported for the first time or poorly known in Australian waters. Systematic Parasitology 41: 123-148

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