Species Opechonoides opisthoporus Duong, Cutmore, Cribb, Pitt, Wee, & Bray, 2022

Museums

Regional Maps

• Opechonoides opisthoporus Duong, B., Cutmore, S.C., Cribb, T.H., Pitt, K.A., Wee, N.Q.-X. & Bray, R.A. 2022. A new species, new host records and life cycle data for lepocreadiids (Digenea) of pomacentrid fishes from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Systematic Parasitology 2022 99: 375-397 [387].
  Zoobank Registration Number:1A4C1EB6-DE1D-4F2B-958C-0BD2AF3B7D9E

  Type data:

   Holotype QM G240016, Off Lizard Island, QLD.
  Paratype(s) QM G240017–42 26 specimens, off Lizard Island, QLD; NHM-UK 2022.2.25.1–2 2 specimens, off Lizard Island, QLD.

  Type host:

   Abudefduf whitleyi Allen & Robertson [POMACENTRIDAE]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Stegastes apicalis De Vis [POMACENTRIDAE] Australian gregory; Abudefduf septemfasciatus Cuvier [POMACENTRIDAE] Banded sergeant; Amphiprion akindynos Allen [POMACENTRIDAE] Barrier Reef anemonefish; Abudefduf bengalensis Bloch [POMACENTRIDAE] Bengal sergeant; Neoglyphidodon melas Cuvier [POMACENTRIDAE] Bowtie damsel; Pomacentrus moluccensis Bleeker [POMACENTRIDAE] Lemon damsel; Pomacentrus adelus Allen [POMACENTRIDAE] Obscure damsel; Abudefduf sexfasciatus Lacépède [POMACENTRIDAE] Scissortail sergeant; Plectroglyphidodon leucozonus Bleeker [POMACENTRIDAE] Whiteband damsel; Pomacentrus chrysurus Cuvier [POMACENTRIDAE] Whitetail damsel; Abudefduf whitleyi Allen & Robertson [POMACENTRIDAE] Whitley’s sergeant; Neoglyphidodon azysron Bleeker [POMACENTRIDAE] Yellow-tail demoiselle).

Extra Ecological Information

Found in many different species of Pomacentridae

History of changes