Genus Kudoa Meglitsch, 1947

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• Kudoa Meglitsch, P.A. 1947. Studies on Myxosporidia from the Beaufort Region II. Observations on Kudoa clupeidae (Hahn) gen. nov. Journal of Parasitology 33: 271-277.
• Hexacapsula Arai, Y. & Matsumoto, K. 1953. On a new sporozoa, Hexacapsula neothunni gen. et sp. nov., from the muscle of yellowfin tuna, Neothunnus macropterus. Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Scientific Fisheries 18: 293-298.
• Pentacapsula Naidjenova, N.N. & Zaika, V.E. 1970. Three new genera of Myxosporidia — fish parasites from the Indian Ocean. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 49: 451-454, 3 figs [In Russian, English summary].
• Septemcapsula Hsieh & Chen, 1984.
• Neochloromyxum Matsumoto, 1954.
• Tetraspina Xie & Chen, 1988.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Whipps, C.M., Grossel, G., Adlard, R.D., Yokoyama, H., Bryant, M.S., Munday, B.L. & Kent, M.L. 2004. Phylogeny of the Multivalvulidae (Myxozoa: Myxosporea) based on comparative ribosomal DNA sequence analysis. Journal of Parasitology 90: 618-622

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from Hemiscyllium ocellatum (Bonnaterre, 1788) [HEMISCYLLIIDAE] Ocellated Catshark, Epaulette Shark (syn. Squalus ocellatus; muscle); Lates calcarifer (Bloch, 1790) [CENTROPOMIDAE] Barramundi, Giant Perch (muscles); Seriola lalandi Valenciennes, 1833 [CARANGIDAE] Yellowtail Kingfish (syn. S. grandis; muscle); and Thunnus maccoyii Castelnau, 1872 [SCOMBRIDAE] Southern Bluefin Tuna (muscles, nerves). See O'Donoghue and Adlard (2000).

Unidentified Kudoa species originally identified as Hexacapsula recorded from Thalassoma lunare (Linnaeus, 1758) [LABRIDAE] Moon Wrasse (muscle (+ PCR)); Grammatorcynus bicarinatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) [SCOMBRIDAE] Shark Mackerel (muscle (+ PCR)); and Scomberomorus commerson (Lacepede, 1800) [SCOMBRIDAE] Narrow-barred Spanish Mackerel (muscle (+ PCR)). See Whipps et al. (2004).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Beumer, J.P., Ashburner, L.D., Burberry, M.E., Jetté, E. & Latham, D.J. 1982. A checklist of the parasites of fishes from Australia and its adjacent Antarctic territories. Technical Communication No. 48 of the Commonwealth Institute of Parasitology (Thanet Press, Margate). 1-99 pp.

Eiras, J.C., Saraiva, A. & Cruz, C. 2014. Synopsis of the species of Kudoa Meglitsch, 1947 (Myxozoa: Myxosporea: Multivalvulida). Systematic Parasitology 87: 153-180

Heupel, M.R. & Bennett, M.B. 1996. A myxosporean parasite (Myxosporea: Multivalvulida) in the skeletal muscle of epaulette sharks, Hemiscyllium ocellatum (Bonnaterre), from the Great Barrier Reef. Journal of Fish Diseases 19: 189-191

Hutson, KS., Ernst, I. & Whittington, I.D. 2007. Risk assessment for metazoan parasites of yellowtail kingfish Seriola lalandi (Perciformes: Carangidae) in South Australian sea-cage aquaculture. Aquaculture 271(1-4): 85-99

Langdon, J.S. 1990. Observations on new Myxobolus species and Kudoa species infecting the nervous system of Australian fishes. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 6: 107-116

Lester, R.J.G. & Sewell, K.B. 1989. Checklist of parasites from Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Australian Journal of Zoology 37: 101-128

Munday, B.L. 1996. Infectious diseases of finfish. in Fish Health Workshop. Post Graduate Committee in Veterinary Science: University of Sydney. pp. 81-132

Nowak, B., Mladineo, I., Aiken, H., Bott, N. & Hayward, C. 2006. Results of health surveys of two species of farmed tuna: southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) in Australia and northern bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in the Mediterranean. Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists 26: 38-42

O'Donoghue, P.J. & Adlard, R.D. 2000. Catalogue of protozoan parasites recorded in Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45: 1-163

Rohde, K. 1976. Marine parasitology in Australia. Search (Sydney) 7: 477-482

Whipps, C.M., Grossel, G., Adlard, R.D., Yokoyama, H., Bryant, M.S., Munday, B.L. & Kent, M.L. 2004. Phylogeny of the Multivalvulidae (Myxozoa: Myxosporea) based on comparative ribosomal DNA sequence analysis. Journal of Parasitology 90: 618-622

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