Species Myxobolus plectroplites Johnston & Bancroft, 1918

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• Myxobolus plectroplites Johnston, T.H. & Bancroft, M.J. 1918. Some new sporozoan parasites of Queensland freshwater fish. Journal of the Royal Society of New South Wales 52: 520-528 [522] [type data not listed].

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Macquaria ambigua (Richardson, 1845) [PERCICHTHYIDAE] Golden Perch (syn. Plectroplites ambiguus; gall bladder, kidneys); Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 [HOMINIDAE] Human (faeces (incidental finding))).

Associated Fauna References

Beumer, J.P., Ashburner, L.D., Burberry, M.E., Jetté, E. & Latham, D.J. 1982. A checklist of the parasites of fishes from Australia and its adjacent Antarctic territories. Technical Communication No. 48 of the Commonwealth Institute of Parasitology (Thanet Press, Margate). 1-99 pp. (Macquaria ambigua)

Boreham, R.E., Hendrick, S., O'Donoghue, P.J. & Stenzel, D.J. 1998. Incidental finding of Myxobolus spores (Protozoa: Myxozoa) in stool samples from patients with gastrointestinal symptoms. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 36: 3728-3730 (Macquaria ambigua; Homo sapiens)

Johnston, T.H. & Bancroft, M.J. 1918. Some new sporozoan parasites of Queensland freshwater fish. Journal of the Royal Society of New South Wales 52: 520-528 (Macquaria ambigua)

Rowland, S.J. & Ingram, B.A. 1991. Diseases of Australian native freshwater fishes with particular emphasis on the ectoparasitic and fungal diseases of Murray cod (Maccullochella peeli), golden perch (Macquaria ambigua) and silver perch (Bidyanus bidyanus). Fisheries Bulletin 4, N.S.W. Dept. Agric. & Fisheries. (Macquaria ambigua)

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