Species Phthinomita abdita Cutmore, Yong, Reimer, Shirakashi, Nolan & Cribb, 2021

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• Phthinomita abdita Cutmore, S.C., Yong, R.Q.-Y., Reimer, J.D. Shirakashi, S., Nolan, M.J. & Cribb, T.H. 2021. Two new species of threadlike blood flukes (Aporocotylidae),with a molecular revision of the genera Ankistromeces Nolan& Cribb, 2004 and Phthinomita Nolan & Cribb, 2006. Systematic Parasitology 2021 98: 641-664 [652].
  Zoobank Registration Number:72F3C376-358A-442B-885B-0E521CA58C53

  Type data:

   Holotype QM G239091, Off Green Island, western Moreton Bay, QLD [27°25’S, 153°14’E].
  Paratype(s) QM G239092–99 8 specimens, Off Amity Point, North Stradbroke Island, eastern MoretonBay, QLD [27°23’S, 153°26’E].

  Type host:

   Choerodon cephalotes Castelnau [LABRIDAE]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: endoparasitic (host(s): Choerodon cephalotes (Castelnau, 1875) [LABRIDAE] Purple tuskfish).

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