Species Parahemiurus merus (Linton, 1910)

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• Hemiurus merus Linton, E. 1910. Helminth fauna of the Dry Tortugas. 2. Trematodes. Papers from the Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institute of Washington 4(Publ. 133): 11-98 [60].

  Type host:

   Sardinella aurita Valenciennes, 1847 [CLUPEIDAE]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Engraulis australis (White, 1790) [ENGRAULIDAE] Australian Anchovy; Caranx sexfasciatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1825 [CARANGIDAE] Bigeye Trevally; Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1766) [POMATOMIDAE] Bluefish; Cephalopholis boenak (Bloch, 1790) [SERRANIDAE] Chocolate Hind; Euthynnus affinis (Cantor, 1849) [SCOMBRIDAE] Kawakawa; Thunnus tonggol (Bleeker, 1851) [SCOMBRIDAE] Longtail Tuna; Siganus fuscescens (Houttuyn, 1782) [SIGANIDAE] Mottled Spinefoot; Etrumeus teres (De Kay, 1842) [CLUPEIDAE] Red-eye Round Herring; Scorpis lineolata Kner, 1865 [KYPHOSIDAE] Silver Sweep; Sardinops sagax (Jenyns, 1842) [CLUPEIDAE] South American Pilchard; Trachinotus coppingeri Günther, 1884 [CARANGIDAE] Swallowtail Dart; Acanthopagrus australis (Günther, 1859) [SPARIDAE] Yellowfin Bream; Seriola lalandi Valenciennes, 1833 [CARANGIDAE] Yellowtail Amberjack).

General References

Bray, R.A. & Cribb, T.H. 2005. Two new hemiurine species (Digenea: Hemiuridae) from Spratelloides robustus Ogilby (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae) off south-western Australia and records of Parahemiurus merus (Linton, 1910) from Australian and New Caledonian waters. Systematic Parasitology 60: 197-203 (Australian record)

Hutson, K., Ernst, I., Mooney, A.J. & Whittington, I.D. 2007. Metazoan parasite assemblages of wild Seriola lalandi (Carangidae) from eastern and southern Australia. Parasitology International 56: 95-105 (Australian record)

Korotaeva, V.D. 1969. [Helminths of some food-fishes of the order Clupeiformes in the sea near Australia and New Zealand] (In Russian). Problems in Parasitology 237-238 (Australian record)

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