Species Preptetos caballeroi Pritchard, 1960

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• Preptetos caballeroi Pritchard, M.H. 1960. Preptetos caballeroi n. gen., n. sp. and Labrifer tertius n. sp. (Trematoda: Lepocreadiidae) from fishes of Hawaii. Anales de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas, Mexico 1960: 245-251, 3 figs.

  Type data:

   Holotype USNPC, Waikiki, Hawaii.

  Type host:

   Naso hexacanthus (Bleeker, 1855) [Acanthuridae]

Introduction

The species is morphologically cryptic relative to Preptetos allocaballeroi and Preptetos paracaballeroi. Preptetos caballeroi is unlikely to occur in Australia, with the comprehensive genetic sequencing conducted by Bray et al. 2022, but several host/parasite combinations were not sequenced, and could yet relate to P. caballeroi. In addition, sequence data for samples from Hawaii (the type-locality) will be needed to confirm the presence or absence of P. caballeroi in Australian waters.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Naso unicornis (Forsskål, 1775) [ACANTHURIDAE] Bluespine unicornfish; Naso fageni Morrow, 1954 [ACANTHURIDAE] Horseface unicornfish).

General References

Bray, R.A., Cutmore, S.C. & Cribb, T.H. 2022. A paradigm for the recognition of cryptic trematode species in tropical Indo-west Pacific fishes: the problematic genus Preptetos (Trematoda: Lepocreadiidae). International Journal for Parasitology 52: 169–203 [180–181]

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