Species Maccallumtrema microstoma (Yamaguti, 1970)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Neodidymozooides microstoma Yamaguti, S. 1970. Digenetic Trematodes of Hawaiian Fishes. Tokyo : Keigaku Publishing 436 pp.

  Type data:

   Holotype USNHC 63843, Hawaii.

  Type host:

   Makaira nigricans Lacepède, 1802 [ISTIOPHORIDAE] (as Makaira ampla)

Generic Combinations

• Maccallumtrema microstoma (Yamaguti, 1970). —
  Pozdnyakov, S.E. & Gibson, D.I. 2008. Family Didymozoidae Monticelli, 1888. pp. 631-734 in Bray, R.A., Gibson, D.I. & Jones, A. Keys to the Trematoda. Wallingford : CAB International Vol. 3 824 pp.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Makaira nigricans Lacépède, 1802 [ISTIOPHORIDAE] Blue Marlin; Istiophorus platypterus (Shaw, 1792) [ISTIOPHORIDAE] Indo-Pacific Sailfish).

General References

Speare, P. 1995. Parasites as biological tags for sailfish Istiophorus platypterus from east coast Australian waters. Marine Ecology Progress Series 118: 43-50 (Australian record)

Speare, P. 1999. Parasites from east-coast Australian billfish. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43: 837-848 (Australian record)

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