Species Pacificreadium serrani (Nagaty & Abdel Aal, 1962)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Podocotyle serrani Nagaty, H.F. & Abel Aal, T.M. 1962. Trematodes of fishes from the Red Sea. Part 19. On three new species of Podocotyle (family Allocreadiidae). Journal of Parasitology 48: 746-747 [746].

  Type host:

   Cephalopholis miniata (Forsskål, 1775) [SERRANIDAE] (as Serranus miniatus)

Generic Combinations

• Pacificreadium serrani (Nagaty & Abdel Aal, 1962). —
  Durio, W.O. & Manter, H.W. 1968. Some digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of New Caledonia. Part II. Opecoelidae and Lepocreadiidae. Journal of Parasitology 54: 747-756, 19 figs

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Epinephelus merra Bloch, 1793 [SERRANIDAE] Honeycomb Grouper; Plectropomus leopardus (Lacepède, 1802) [SERRANIDAE] Leopard Coralgrouper; Plectropomus maculatus (Bloch, 1790) [SERRANIDAE] Spotted Coralgrouper).

General References

Bray, R.A. & Cribb, T.H. 1989. Digeneans of the family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925 from the southern Great Barrier Reef, including a new genus and three new species. Journal of Natural History 23: 429-473 (Australian record)

Durio, W.O. & Manter, H.W. 1968. Some digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of New Caledonia. Part II. Opecoelidae and Lepocreadiidae. Journal of Parasitology 54: 747-756, 19 figs (Australian record)

Hall, K.A., Cribb, T.H. & Barker, S.C. 1999. V4 region of small subunit rDNA indicates polyphyly of the Fellodistomidae (Digenea) which is supported by morphology and life-cycle data. Systematic Parasitology 43: 81-92 (Australian record)

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