Species Nerocila monodi Hale, 1940
- Nerocila monodi Hale, H.M. 1940. Report on the cymothoid Isopoda obtained by F.I.S. "Endeavour" on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 64: 288-304 [301].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA C290, Great Palm Is., QLD, from Lutjanus sp. (as Lutianus).
Paratype(s) SAMA C289; BMNH (specimens examined by T. Monod but not listed by Ellis & Lincoln (1975)).
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Papua New Guinea, tropical western Pacific northwards to Philippines.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Lower E coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- Western Australia
Ecological Descriptors
Ectoparasitic, marine.
Extra Ecological Information
Parasitic on Carangidae, Mulidae, Priacanthidae and Sparidae.
General References
Bruce, N.L. 1987. Australian species of Nerocila Leach, 1818, and Creniola n. gen. (Isopoda: Cymothoidae), crustacean parasites of marine fishes. Records of the Australian Museum 39: 355-412 (synonymy, description, figures, distribution)
Bruce, N.L. 1991. Two new species of Renocila from off the tropical Australian coasts (Isopoda: Cymothoidae), crustacean parasites of marine fishes. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 8: 159-168 (mulid host)
Bruce, N.L. & Harrison-Nelson, E.B. 1988. New records of fish parasitic marine isopod crustaceans (Cymothoidae, subfamily Anilocrinae) from the Indo-West Pacific. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101: 585-602 (distribution, figure)
Ellis, J.P. & Lincoln, R.J. 1975. Catalogue of the types of terrestrial isopods (Oniscoidea) in the collections of the British Muesum (Natural History). II. Oniscoidea, excluding Pseudotracheata. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 28: 63-100
History of changes
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