Species Kudoa thalassomi Adlard, Bryant, Whipps & Kent, 2005

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• Kudoa thalassomi Adlard, R.D., Bryant, M.S., Whipps, C.M. & Kent, M.L. 2005. Multivalvulid myxozoans from eastern Australia: three new species of Kudoa from scombrid and labrid fishes of the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. Journal of Parasitology 91: 1138-1142.

  Type data:

   Hapantotype(s) QM G464620, Swain Reefs, Great Barrier Reef [21°36.20′S, 152°22.26′E]
  Comment: Parahapantotypes G464621-G464625 deposited in the Queensland Museum.

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Dascyllus aruanus (Linnaeus, 1758) [POMACENTRIDAE] Banded Humbug (muscle (+ PCR)); Amphiprion akindynos Allen, 1972 [POMACENTRIDAE] Barrier Reef Anemonefish (muscle (+ PCR)); Chelmon rostratus (Linnaeus, 1758) [CHAETODONTIDAE] Beaked Coralfish (muscle (+ PCR)); Abudefduf bengalensis (Bloch, 1787) [POMACENTRIDAE] Bengal Sergeant (muscle (+ PCR)); Neoglyphidodon melas (Cuvier, 1830) [POMACENTRIDAE] Black Damsel (muscle (+ PCR)); Amphiprion melanopus Bleeker, 1852 [POMACENTRIDAE] Blackback Anemonefish (muscle (+ PCR)); Chrysiptera cyanea Quoy & Gaimard, 1825 [POMACENTRIDAE] Blue Demoiselle (muscle (+ PCR)); Cephalopholis boenak (Bloch, 1790) [SERRANIDAE] Brownbarred Rockcod (muscle (+ PCR)); Thalassoma lutescens (Lay & Bennett, 1839) [LABRIDAE] Green Moon Wrasse (muscle (+ PCR)); Heniochus monoceros Cuvier, 1831 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Masked Bannerfish (muscle (+ PCR)); Thalassoma lunare (Linnaeus, 1758) [LABRIDAE] Moon Wrasse (muscles); Thalassoma lunare (Linnaeus, 1758) [LABRIDAE] Moon wrasse (in somatic muscles); Amblyglyphidodon curacao (Bloch, 1787) [POMACENTRIDAE] Staghorn Damsel (muscle (+ PCR)); Chaetodon unimaculatus Bloch, 1787 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Teardrop Butterflyfish (muscle (+ PCR)); Cheilodipterus macrodon (Lacépède, 1802) [APOGONIDAE] Tiger Cardinalfish (muscle (+ PCR)); Chaetodon baronessa Cuvier, 1831 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Triangular Butterflyfish (muscle (+ PCR)); Chaetodon vagabundus Linnaeus, 1758 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Vagabond Butterflyfish (muscle (+ PCR)); Abudefduf whitleyi Allen & Robertson, 1974 [POMACENTRIDAE] Whitley's Sergeant (muscle (+ PCR)); Scarus flavipectoralis Schultz, 1958 [LABRIDAE] Yellowfin Parrotfish (muscle (+ PCR))).

Associated Fauna References

Adlard, R.D., Bryant, M.S., Whipps, C.M. & Kent, M.L. 2005. Multivalvulid myxozoans from eastern Australia: three new species of Kudoa from scombrid and labrid fishes of the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. Journal of Parasitology 91: 1138-1142 (Thalassoma lunare)

Burger, M.A.A. & Adlard, R.D. 2011. Low host specificity in the Kudoidae (Myxosporea: Multivalvulida) including seventeen new host records for Kudoa thalassomi. Folia Parasitologica. Prague 58(1): 1-16 [4] (Abudefduf whitleyi; Amphiprion akindynos; Scarus flavipectoralis; Amphiprion melanopus; Thalassoma lutescens; Heniochus monoceros; Chaetodon baronessa; Neoglyphidodon melas; Chrysiptera cyanea; Cheilodipterus macrodon; Cephalopholis boenak; Amblyglyphidodon curacao; Abudefduf bengalensis; Chaetodon unimaculatus; Dascyllus aruanus; Chelmon rostratus; Chaetodon vagabundus)

Eiras, J.C., Saraiva, A. & Cruz, C. 2014. Synopsis of the species of Kudoa Meglitsch, 1947 (Myxozoa: Myxosporea: Multivalvulida). Systematic Parasitology 87: 153-180 [174] (Thalassoma lunare)

General References

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

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