Species Megalonchos sumansinghai Caira, Reyda & Mega, 2007

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• Megalonchos sumansinghai Caira, J.N., Reyda, F.B. & Mega, J.D. 2007. A revision of Megalonchos Baer & Euzet, 1962 (Tetraphyllidea: Onchobothriidae), with the description of two new species and transfer of two species to Biloculuncus Nasin, Caira & Euzet, 1997. Systematic Parasitology 67: 211-223 [214].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM G 227479, Arafura Sea, north of the Wessel Islands, Northern Territory [137.07°E, 10.40°S].
  Paratype(s) QM G 227480-G 227483, Arafura Sea, north of Wessel Islands, Northern Territory [137.07°E, 10.40°S].

  Type host:

   Hemipristis elongatus (Klunzinger) [HEMIGALEIDAE] (found in spiral intestine)

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Hemipristis elongatus (Klunzinger) [HEMIGALEIDAE] Snaggletooth Shark (found in spiral intestine)).

General References

Cutmore, S.C., Cribb, T.H., Bennett, M.B. & Beveridge, I. 2018. Tetraphyllidean and onchoproteocephalidean cestodes of elasmobranchs from Moreton Bay, Australia: description of two new species and new records for seven described species. Systematic Parasitology 95: 807-827

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