Species Lobatotrema aniferum Manter, 1963
- Lobatotrema aniferum 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.
Type data:
Holotype USNM 59848, Off Fiji.Type host:
Balistid sp. [BALISTIDAE] - Sphincterostomum acollum Oshmarin, P.G., Mamaev, Y.L. & Parukhin, A.M. 1961. New species of trematodes of the family Diploproctodaeidae Ozaki, 1928. Helminthologia 3: 254-261 [Synonym here only of S. acollum reported by Yamaguti (1971) in part, and that reported by Machida & Kuramochi (1999).].
Secondary source:
Yamaguti, S. 1971. Synopsis of digenetic trematodes of vertebrates. Tokyo : Keigaku Publishing Co. 2 vols pp. 1-1074.; Machida, M. & Kuramochi, T. 1999. Digenean trematodes from tetraodontiform fishes from Japanese and adjacent waters. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series A, Zoology 25: 1–25.
Distribution
States
Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Queensland: off Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef
Western Australia: Ningaloo Reef
IMCRA
Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Distribution References
- Magro, L., Cutmore, S.C., Carrasson, M. & Cribb, T.H. 2023. Integrated characterisation of nine species of the Schistorchiinae (Trematoda: Apocreadiidae) from Indo-Pacific fishes: two new species, a new genus, and a resurrected but 'cryptic' genus. Systematic Parasitology [Published online first on 10 May 2023]
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: endoparasitic (host(s): Balistoides viridescens (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) [BALISTIDAE] Titan triggerfish; Pseudobalistes fuscus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) [BALISTIDAE] Yellow-spotted triggerfish; Pseudobalistes flavimarginatus (Rüppell, 1829) [BALISTIDAE] Yellowmargin triggerfish).