Species Microcotyle pomatomi Goto, 1900

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• Microcotyle pomatomi Goto, S. 1900. Notes on some exotic species of ectoparasitic trematodes. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo 12(4): 263-295.

  Type data:

   
  Status unknown, BMNH 1984.11.23.22-25 voucher, Swan River Estuary, Cockburn Sound, Perth, WA; USNM 71949 'homeotypes' x 2, Carnarvon, Cape Peron, WA.

  Type host:

   Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1766) [POMATOMIDAE]
• Microcotyle australiensis MacCallum, G.A. 1921. Studies in helminthology. Part 1. Trematodes. Zoopathologica 1: 137-284.
• Microcotyle debueni Mané-Garzón, F. 1959. Un nuevo trematodo monogenetico de America Meridional: Microcotyle debueni n. sp. Comunicaciones Zoologicas del Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo 4(80): 1-7.
• Microcotyle temnodontis Sandars, D.F. 1945. Five new microcotylids from fish from Western Australian waters. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 29: 107-126 [119].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, SAMA AHC40847 Slide (Registered as "type"), Bunbury, Western Australia.

  Type host:

   Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1766) [POMATOMIDAE] (Host originally identified as Temnodon saltator)

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Moreton Bay, Qld; Swan River Estuary, Cockburn Sound, Perth, Carnarvon, Cape Peron, Shark Bay, WA.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: ectoparasitic (host(s): Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1766) [POMATOMIDAE] Tailor).

 

Diagnosis References

Goto, S. 1900. Notes on some exotic species of ectoparasitic trematodes. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo 12(4): 263-295

 

General References

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] [348] (Redescription & Australian locality record)

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 [20] (redescription and locality reference)

Young, P.C. 1970. The species of Monogenoidea recorded from Australian fishes and notes on their zoogeography. Anales del Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional de Mexico Serie Zoología 41: 163-176 [170] (New record on Pomatomus saltatrix from Moreton Bay)

 

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