Species Opecoelus gobii (Yamaguti, 1952)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Opegaster gobii Yamaguti, S. 1952. Parasitic worms mainly from Celebes. Part 1. New digenetic trematodes of fishes. Acta Medica Okayama 8: 146-198.

  Type host:

   Gobius sp. [GOBIIDAE]

Generic Combinations

• Opecoelus gobii (Yamaguti, 1952). —
  Aken'Ova, T.O. 2007. The taxonomic status of Opegaster Ozaki, 1928 and the description of four new species of Opecoelus Ozaki, 1925 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from marine teleosts in Australian waters. Systematic Parasitology 67: 25-42

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Centroberyx gerrardi (Günther, 1887) [BERYCIDAE] Bight Redfish).

General References

Korotaeva, V.D. 1969. [Helminth infection of marine fishes of the family Berycidae in the Great Australian Bight]. Voprosy Morskoi Biologii : Tezisy II Vsesoyuznaya Simpoziuma Molodykh Uchenykh, Sebastopol, Vols 68-70. 1 pp. [in Russian] (Australian record)

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