Species Neohypocreadium dorsoporum Machida & Uchida, 1987

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• Neohypocreadium dorsoporum Machida, M. & Uchida, K. 1987. Two new lepocreadiid trematodes from butterfly fishes of southern Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series A, Zoology 13: 35-40.

  Type data:

   Holotype NSMT Pl 1317 b, Ishigaki-jima, Japan.
  Paratype(s) NSMT Pl 3173 b, Ishigaki-jima, Japan.

  Type host:

   Chaetodon auriga Forsskål, 1775 [Chaetodontidae]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Chaetodon flavirostris Günther, 1874 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Black Butterflyfish; Chaetodon melannotus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Blackback Butterflyfish; Chaetodon plebeius Cuvier, 1831 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Blueblotch Butterflyfish; Chaetodon aureofasciatus Macleay, 1878 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Golden Butterflyfish; Chaetodon lineolatus Cuvier, 1831 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Lined Butterflyfish; Chaetodon ulietensis Cuvier, 1831 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Pacific Double-saddle Butterflyfish; Chaetodon ephippium Cuvier, 1831 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Saddle Butterflyfish; Parachaetodon ocellatus (Cuvier, 1831) [CHAETODONTIDAE] Sixspine Butterflyfish; Chaetodon kleinii Bloch, 1790 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Sunburst Butterflyfish; Chaetodon pelewensis Kner, 1868 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Sunset Butterflyfish; Chaetodon auriga Forsskål, 1775 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Threadfin Butterflyfish; Heniochus chrysostomus Cuvier, 1831 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Threeband Pennantfish; Chaetodon vagabundus Linnaeus, 1758 [CHAETODONTIDAE] Vagabond Butterflyfish).

General References

Bray, R.A., Cribb, T.H. & Barker, S.C. 1994. Fellodistomidae and Lepocreadiidae (Platyhelminthes: Digenea) from chaetodontid fishes (Perciformes) from Heron Island, Southern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 545-581

Lo, C.F., Morgan, J.A.T., Galzin, R. & Cribb, T.H. 2001. Identical digeneans in coral reef fishes from French Polynesia and the Great Barrier Reef (Australia) demonstrated by morphology and molecules. International Journal for Parasitology 31: 1573-1578

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