Species Microcotyle arripis Sandars, 1945

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• Microcotyle arripis Sandars, D.F. 1945. Five new microcotylids from fish from Western Australian waters. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 29: 107-126 [114].

  Type data:

   
  Status unknown, BMNH 1987.9.9.7-9 voucher, Swan River Estuary and Cockburn Sound, Perth, WA; SAMA AHC40845 1 slide (registered as 'Type'.), Western Australia.

  Type host:

   Arripis georgianus (Valenciennes, 1831) [ARRIPIDAE] (Parasite from gills)

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Adelaide, near Ardrossan, SA; Swan River Estuary and Cockburn Sound, Perth.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: ectoparasitic (host(s): Arripis georgianus (Valenciennes, 1831) [ARRIPIDAE] Australian Herring; Arripis trutta (Forster, 1801) [ARRIPIDAE] Eastern Australian Salmon; Arripis xylabion Paulin, 1993 [ARRIPIDAE] Giant Kahawai; Arripis truttaceus (Cuvier, 1829) [ARRIPIDAE] Western Australian Salmon).

 

General References

Catalano, S.R., Hutson, K.S., Ratcliff, R.M. & Whittington, I.D. 2010. Redescriptions of two species of microcotylid monogeneans from three arripid hosts in southern Australian waters. Systematic Parasitology 76: 211-222 [214] (redescription)

Dillon, W.A., Hargis, W.J. Jr & Harrises, A.E. 1984. Monogeneans from the southern Pacific Ocean. Polyopisthocotyleids from Australian fishes. The subfamily Microcotylinae. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 63: 348-359 [in Russian: Translation Series 32, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, 1985] (Redescrption + Australian host & locality record)

Hutson, K.S., Catalano, S.R. & Whittington, I.D. 2011. Metazoan parasite survey of selected macro-inshore fish of southeastern Australia, including species of commercial importance. Final Report for the Fisheries Research and Developemnt Corporation, FRDC Project No. 2007/225. xiv 245 pp. [109]

Williams, A. 1991. Monogeneans of the families Microcotylidae Taschenburg, 1879 and Heteraxinidae Price, 1962 from Western Australia, including the description of Polylabris sandarsae n. sp. (Microcotylidae). Systematic Parasitology 18: 17-43 [24] (Redescription and locality reference)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Dec-2023	MONOGENEA	11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Storm Martin
04-Aug-2021	MONOGENEA	11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED
02-Nov-2018	MONOGENEA	11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED	Ms Jo Wood
27-Jul-2017	MONOGENEA	11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED	Ms Jo Wood
27-Jul-2017	POLYOPISTHOCOTYLEA	11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED
		11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED