Species Petrarca okadai Grygier, 1981
- Petrarca okadai Grygier, M.J. 1981. Petrarca okadai, a new crustacean (Maxillopoda: Ascothoracica) from the Great Barrier Reef, the first shallow-water record of the genus. Journal of Crustacean Biology 1: 183-189 [183].
Type data:
Holotype USNM 181375, Lizard Island, QLD, 18 m.
Paratype(s) AM P30978.Type host:
Heteropsammia michelini Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1848 [DENDROPHYLLIIDAE] (currently Heteropsammia cochlea (Spengler, 1781))
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Somalia.
IMCRA
Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Queensland: Great Barrier Reef
Ecological Descriptors
Coral reef, endoparasitic (host(s): Heteropsammia cochlea Spengler, 1781 [DENDROPHYLLIIDAE] (scleractinian coral)), marine.
General References
Fisk, D.A. 1981. Fisk, D.A. (1981) Studies of two free-living corals and their common sipunculan associate at Wistari Reef (Great Barrier Reef). M.Sc. thesis. University of Queensland: Brisbane. 201 pp. (records at Lizard I. and Wistari Reef)
Grygier, M.J. 1985. New ascothoracid crustacean endoparasites of Scleractinia. Journal of Natural History 19: 1029-1043 (recorded species in Somalia)
Grygier, M.J. 1996. A world list of coral reef-associated Ascothoracida (Crustacea), with remarks on Lauridae, Petrarcidae, and Dendrogastridae from Okinawa, Japan. Galaxea 13: 15-33 [25] (mapped distribution)
Grygier, M.J. & Nomura, S. 1995. Petrarcid galls and Petrarcidae (Crustacea: Ascothoracida) in some scleractinian corals from Japan. Galaxea 12: 83-101 (possible record from Japan on Tubastraea coccinea Lesson, 1830, orange cup coral)
History of changes
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