Species Lepocreadium oyabitcha Machida, 1984

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lepocreadium oyabitcha Machida, M. 1984. Two new trematodes from gall bladder of tropical marine fishes Myripristis and Abudefduf. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series A, Zoology 10: 1-5.

  Type data:

   Holotype NSMT Pl 2757, Okinawa, southern Japan.
  Paratype(s) NSMT Pl 2737, Okinawa, southern Japan.

  Type host:

   Abudefduf vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) [Pomacentridae]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Abudefduf bengalensis Bloch [POMACENTRIDAE] Bengal sergeant; Abudefduf sordidus Forsskål [POMACENTRIDAE] Blackspot sergeant; Abudefduf vaigiensis Quoy & Gaimard [POMACENTRIDAE] Indo-Pacific sergeant; Abudefduf sexfasciatus Cuvier [POMACENTRIDAE] Scissortail sergeant; Abudefduf whitleyi Allen & Robertson, 1974 [POMACENTRIDAE] Whitley's Sergeant).

General References

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

Duong, B., Cutmore, S.C., Cribb, T.H., Pitt, K.A., Wee, N.Q.-X. & Bray, R.A. 2022. A new species, new host records and life cycle data for lepocreadiids (Digenea) of pomacentrid fishes from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Systematic Parasitology 2022 99: 375-397 [388]

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