Species Lobatocreadium exiguum (Manter, 1963)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lepocreadium exiguum Manter, H.W. 1963. Studies on digenetic trematodes of fishes of Fiji. II. Families Lepocreadiidae, Opistholebetidae, and Opecoelidae. Journal of Parasitology 49: 99-113, 4 pls [99].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNHC 59845, Suva, Fiji.

  Type host:

   [Balistidae] (Unidentified species of triggerfish)

Generic Combinations

• Lobatocreadium exiguum (Manter, 1963). —
  Madhavi, R. 1972. Digenetic trematodes from marine fishes of Waltair Coast, Bay of Bengal. I. Family Lepocrediidae. Journal of Parasitology 58(2): 217-225

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Sufflamen bursa (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) [BALISTIDAE] Boomerang Triggerfish; Balistapus undulatus (Park, 1797) [BALISTIDAE] Orange-lined Triggerfish; Abalistes stellatus (Anonymous, 1798) [BALISTIDAE] Starry Triggerfish).

General References

Bray, R.A. & Cribb, T.H. 1996. The Australian species of Lobatocreadium Madhavi, 1972, Hypocreadium Ozaki, 1936 and Dermadena Manter, 1945 (Digenea: Lepocreadiidae), parasites of marine tetraodontiform fishes. Systematic Parasitology 35: 217-236

Bray, R.A. & Cribb, T.H. 2002. Lepocreadiinae lepocreadiids (Digenea) from tetraodontiform fishes in the waters off Tasmania, Queensland and Moorea, French Polynesia. Acta Parasitologica 47: 6-13

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