Species Otobothrium crenacolle Linton, 1890

Museums

Regional Maps

• Otobothrium crenacolle Linton, E. 1890. Notes on Entozoa of marine fishes of New England. Part II. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1887. Washington. pp. 719-900.

  Type data:

   Neotype USNPC 7695, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA.

  Type host:

   Sphyrna lewini Griffith & Smith, 1834 [SPHYRNIDAE]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

USA, Mozambique, Burma

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: N coast

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1842) [CARCHARHINIDAE] Blacktip Reef Shark (definitive host); Carcharhinus limbatus (Valenciennes, 1839) [CARCHARHINIDAE] Blacktip Shark (definitive host); Carcharhinus amboinensis (Müller & Henle, 1839) [CARCHARHINIDAE] Pigeye Shark (definitive host)).

 

General References

Beveridge, I. & Justine, J.-L. 2007. Redescriptions of four species of Otobothrium Linton, 1890 (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha) , including new records from Australia, New Caledonia and Malaysia, with the description of O. parvum n. sp. Zootaxa 1587: 1-25 (redescription)

Schaeffner, B.C. & Beveridge, I. 2013. Redescriptions and new records of species of Otobothrium Linton, 1890 (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha). Systematic Parasitology 84: 17-55 [Australian record] (Australian records)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-May-2023	CESTODA	20-May-2023	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022	CESTODA	19-Apr-2023	MODIFIED
25-Jan-2022	CESTODA	20-May-2023	MODIFIED
25-Jan-2022	TRYPANORHYNCHA Diesing, 1863	20-May-2023	MODIFIED	Ms Jo Wood
26-Nov-2015	CESTODA	20-May-2023	MODIFIED
	CESTODA	03-Feb-2014	ADDED