Species Kudoa amamiensis Egusa & Nakajima, 1980

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• Kudoa amamiensis Egusa, S. & Nakajima, K. 1980. Kudoa amamiensis n. sp (Myxosporea: Multivalvulida) found In cultured yellowtails and wild damselfishes from Amami-Ohshima and Okinawa. Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Scientific Fisheries 46: 1193-1198.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, NSMT Pr 102
  Comment: Identity of type material not specified.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Abudefduf bengalensis (Bloch, 1787) [POMACENTRIDAE] Bengal Sergeant (muscles (+ PCR)); Caranx sexfasciatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1825 [CARANGIDAE] Bigeye Trevally (muscles (+ PCR)); Abudefduf sexfasciatus (Lacepède, 1801) [POMACENTRIDAE] Scissortail Sergeant (in skeletal musculature); Pempheris ypsilychnus (Mooi & Jubb, 1996) [PEMPHERIDAE] Sweeper (muscle (+ PCR)); Abudefduf whitleyi Allen & Robertson, 1974 [POMACENTRIDAE] Whitley’s Sergeant (muscles (+ PCR)); Chromis isharae (Schmidt) [POMACENTRIDAE] (in skeletal musculature); Chromis notatus (Temminck & Schlegel) [POMACENTRIDAE] (in skeletal musculature); Chrysiptera assimilis (Gunther) [POMACENTRIDAE] (in skeletal musculature); Seriola quinqueradiata Temminck & Schlegel [CARANGIDAE] (in skeletal musculature); Abudefduf vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard) [POMACENTRIDAE] (in skeletal musculature)).

Associated Fauna References

Burger, M.A.A., Barnes, A.C. & Adlard, R.D. 2008. Wildlife as reservoirs for parasites infecting commercial species: host specificity and a redescription of Kudoa amamiensis from teleost fish in Australia. Journal of Fish Diseases 31: 835-844 (Abudefduf whitleyi; Caranx sexfasciatus; Abudefduf bengalensis)

Eiras, J.C., Saraiva, A. & Cruz, C. 2014. Synopsis of the species of Kudoa Meglitsch, 1947 (Myxozoa: Myxosporea: Multivalvulida). Systematic Parasitology 87: 153-180 [154] (Abudefduf sexfasciatus; Chrysiptera assimilis; Chromis notatus; Abudefduf vaigiensis; Chromis isharae; Seriola quinqueradiata)

Whipps, C.M., Adlard, R.D., Bryant, M.S., Lester, R.J.G., Findlay, V. & Kent, M.L. 2003. First report of three Kudoa species from eastern Australia: Kudoa thyrsites from mahi mahi (Coryphaena hippurus), Kudoa amamiensis and Kudoa minithyrsites n. sp. from sweeper (Pempheris ypsilychnus). Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 50: 215-219 (Pempheris ypsilychnus)

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