Species Hysterolecitha melae Duong, Cribb & Cutmore, 2023

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hysterolecitha melae Duong, B., Cribb, T.H. & Cutmore, S.C. 2023. Evidence for two morphologically cryptic species of Hysterolecitha Linton, 1910 (Trematoda: Lecithasteridae) infecting overlapping host ranges in Moreton Bay, Australia. Systematic Parasitology 100: 363-379 [Published online first on 03 May 2023].
  Zoobank Registration Number:urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 222B5282-1B30-4E90-82AD-FED139E6C0EB

  Type data:

   Holotype QM G240369 (Hologenophore), Off Amity Point, Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia [27°24ʹS 153°25ʹE].
  Paratype(s) QM G240370–G240385 (10 hologenophores: G240370–G240374, G240380–G240383, G240385; 6 paragenophores: G240375–G240379, G240384), same data as Holotype.

  Type host:

   Abudefduf bengalensis (Bloch, 1787) [POMACENTRIDAE]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: endoparasitic (host(s): Parma oligolepis Whitley, 1929 [POMACENTRIDAE] Big-scale parma; Abudefduf vaigiensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1825 [POMACENTRIDAE] Indo-Pacific sergeant; Abudefduf whitleyi Allen & Robertson, 1974 [POMACENTRIDAE] Whitley's sergeant).

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	TREMATODA	01-Jul-2024	MODIFIED
	TREMATODA	23-Aug-2023	ADDED