Species Polylabris sillaginae (Woolcock, 1936)

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• Microcotyle sillaginae Woolcock, V. 1936. Monogenetic trematodes from some Australian fishes. Parasitology 28: 79-91 [84] [transferred to Bivagina by Yamaguti, 1963 then to Polylabris by Dillon, Hargis & Harris, 1983].

  Type data:

   
  Status unknown, BMNH 1984.11.23.2-8; 1987.9.3.2, 1987.9.3.3 voucher, Swan River Estuary and Cockburn Sound, WA; USNM 71950 'homeotypes' x 5.

  Type host:

   Sillago schomburgkii Peters, 1864 [SILLAGINIDAE]
• Microcotyle parsillaginae Sandars, D.F. 1945. Five new microcotylids from fish from Western Australian waters. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 29: 107-126 [112].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC40844 Wholemount slide, Albany, Western Australia.

  Type host:

   Sillaginodes punctatus (Cuvier, 1829) [SILLAGINIDAE] (Parasite from gills)

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mamaev, Yu.L. 1986. The taxonomical composition of the family Microcotylidae Taschenberg, 1879 (Monogenea). Folia Parasitologica. Prague 33: 199-206 [203]

 

Generic Combinations

• Polylabris sillaginae (Woolcock, 1936). —
  Dillon, W.A., Hargis, W.J. Jr & Harrises, A.E. 1983. Monogeneans from the southern Pacific Ocean. Polyopisthocotyleids from Australian fishes. The subfamilies Polylabrinae and Microcotylinae. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 62: 821-828 [in Russian: Translation Series 32, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, 1985]
• Bivaginuda sillaginae (Woolcock, 1936). —
  Unnithan, R.V. 1971. On the functional morphology of a new fauna of Monogenoidea of fishes from Trivandrum and environs. Part IV. Microcotylidae sensu stricto and its repartition into subsidiary taxa. American Midland Naturalist 85: 366-398

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Moreton Bay (Qld); Adelaide (SA); Port Philip Bay (Vic); Swan River Estuary and Cockburn Sound, Perth (WA).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland
  • South Australia
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: ectoparasitic (host(s): Sillago ciliata Cuvier, 1829 [SILLAGINIDAE] Sand Whiting; Sillago schomburgkii Peters, 1864 [SILLAGINIDAE] Yellowfin Whiting).

 

General References

Williams, A. 1991. Monogeneans of the families Microcotylidae Taschenburg, 1879 and Heteraxinidae Price, 1962 from Western Australia, including the description of Polylabris sandarsae n. sp. (Microcotylidae). Systematic Parasitology 18: 17-43 [31] (Australian host and locality reference)

Young, P.C. 1970. The species of Monogenoidea recorded from Australian fishes and notes on their zoogeography. Anales del Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional de Mexico Serie Zoología 41: 163-176 [170] (New record on Sillago ciliata from Moreton Bay, Qld)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Dec-2023	MONOGENEA	11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Storm Martin
04-Aug-2021	MONOGENEA	11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED
02-Nov-2018	MONOGENEA	11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED	Ms Jo Wood
27-Jul-2017	MONOGENEA	11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED	Ms Jo Wood
27-Jul-2017	POLYOPISTHOCOTYLEA	11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED
		11-Jan-2024	MODIFIED