Genus Macvicaria Gibson & Bray, 1982

Museums

Regional Maps

• Macvicaria Gibson, D.I. & Bray, R.A. 1982. A study and reorganization of Plagioporus Stafford, 1904 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) and related genera, with special reference to forms from European Atlantic waters. Journal of Natural History 16: 529-559 [533].

  Type species:

   Macvicaria alacris (Looss, 1901) Gibson & Bray, 1982 by original designation.
• Cryptacetabulum Shalaby, I.M.I. & Hassanine, R.M.E. 1997. Cryptacetabulum aegyptensis n. gen. n. sp. (Trematoda, Digenea: Opistholebetidae) from a Red Sea fish; as described by light and scanning electron microscopy. Journal of the Egyptian German Society of Zoology 24: 247-259.

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

General References

Aken'Ova, T.O., Cribb, T.H. & Bray, R.A. 2008. Eight new species of Macvicaria Gibson and Bray, 1982 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) mainly from endemic temperate marine fishes of Australia. ZooKeys 1: 23-58 (Australian record)

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