Species Opechona bacillaris (Molin, 1859)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Distoma bacillare Molin, 1859.

  Type host:

   Centrolophus niger (Gmelin, 1789) [Centrolophidae]

Generic Combinations

• Opechona bacillaris (Molin, 1859). —
  Bray, R.A. & Gibson, D.I. 1990. The Lepocreadiidae (Digenea) of fishes of the north-east Atlantic: review of the genera Opechona Looss, 1907 and Prodistomum Linton, 1910. Systematic Parasitology 15: 159-202

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Scomber australasicus Cuvier, 1832 [SCOMBRIDAE] Blue Mackerel; Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier, 1816) [SCOMBRIDAE] Indian Mackerel; Nemadactylus valenciennesi (Whitley, 1937) [CHEILODACTYLIDAE] Sea Carp).

General References

Korotaeva, V.D. 1970. [Parasite fauna of two species of commercial fish of the family Cheilodactylidae in the region of Australia and New Zealand]. pp. 44-46 in Vodjanitskii, V.A. (ed.). Problems in Marine Parasitology. Kiev : Naukova Dumka.

Korotaeva, V.D. 1974. [Helminths of some commercial marine fish of the sub-order Scomberoidei from the Australian region] (In Russian). Izvestiya Tikhookeanskogo Nauchno Issledovatel'skogo Instituta Rybnogo Khozyaistva i Okeanografii (TINRO) 88: 61-66

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