Species Prototransversotrema steeri Angel, 1969
- Prototransversotrema steeri Angel, L.M. 1969. Prototransversotrema steeri gen. nov. sp. nov. (Digenea : Transversotrematidae) from a South Australian fish. Parasitology 59: 719-724 [719].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA AHC40970 (E829) Slide, North Arm, Port River, South Australia.
Paratype(s) SAMA AHC4765,AHC40971-AHC40973 (E830-32) vial & slides, North Arm, Port River, South Australia.Type host:
Aldrichetta forsteri (Valenciennes, 1836) [MUGILIDAE] (Parasite from under scales)
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Qld, SA, Tas: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Wet Tropics (WT)
IMCRA
Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: parasitic (host(s): Lates calcarifer (Bloch, 1790) [LATIDAE] Barramundi; Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1766) [POMATOMIDAE] Bluefish; Arripis trutta (Forster, 1801) [ARRIPIDAE] Eastern Australian Salmon; Ambassis marianus Günther, 1880 [AMBASSIDAE] Estuary Perchlet; Xiphophorus hellerii Heckel, 1848 [POECILIIDAE] Green Swordtail; Liza subviridis (Valenciennes, 1836) [MUGILIDAE] Greenback Mullet; Craterocephalus marjoriae Whitley, 1948 [ATHERINIDAE] Marjorie's Hardyhead; Gambusia affinis (Baird & Girard, 1853) [POECILIIDAE] Mosquitofish (this species is not recorded in the Australian fauna, so may be a misidentification); Pseudomugil signifer Kner, 1866 [PSEUDOMUGILIDAE] Pacific Blue-eye; Girella tricuspidata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) [KYPHOSIDAE] Parore; Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758 [MUGILIDAE] Sea Mullet; Atherinosoma microstoma (Günther, 1861) [ATHERINIDAE] Small-mouth Hardyhead; Xiphophorus maculatus (Günther, 1866) [POECILIIDAE] Southern Platyfish; Aldrichetta forsteri (Valenciennes, 1836) [MUGILIDAE] Yellow-eye Mullet; Acanthopagrus australis (Günther, 1859) [SPARIDAE] Yellowfin Bream).
General References
Callinan, R.B. & Keep, J.A. 1989. Bacteriology and parasitology of red spot disease in sea mullet, Mugil cephalus L., from eastern Australia. Journal of Fish Diseases 12: 349-356 (Australian record)
Cribb, T.H. 1988. Life cycle and biology of Prototransversotrema steeri Angel, 1969 (Digenea: Transversotrematidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 36: 111-129 (Australian record)
Cribb, T.H., Bray, R.A. & Barker, S.C. 1992. A review of the family Transversotrematidae (Trematoda: Digenea) with the description of a new genus, Crusziella. Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 909-935 (Australian record)
Dove, A.D.M. 2000. Richness patterns in exotic poecilid fishes. Parasitology 120: 609-623 (Australian record)
Olson, P.D., Cribb, T.H., Tkach, V.V., Bray, R.A. & Littlewood, D.T.J. 2003. Phylogeny and classification of the Digenea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda). International Journal for Parasitology 33: 733-755 (Australian record)
Rodgers, L.J. & Burke, J.B. 1988. Aetiology of `red spot' disease (vibriosis) with special reference to the ectoparasitic digenean Prototransversotrema steeri (Angel) and the sea mullet, Mugil cephalus (Linnaeus). Journal of Fish Biology 32: 655-663 (Australian record)
Roubal, F.R. 1998. Observations on the seasonal occurrence of two species of transversotrematid Digenea parasitising the sparid fish Acanthopagrus australis in Moreton Bay, eastern Australia. Folia Parasitologica. Prague 45: 205-210 (Australian record)
History of changes
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| 07-Feb-2024 | TREMATODA | 07-Feb-2024 | MODIFIED | |
| 15-Sep-2023 | TREMATODA | 30-Nov-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 05-Aug-2022 | TREMATODA | 07-Feb-2024 | MODIFIED | |
| 11-Feb-2022 | TREMATODA | 07-Feb-2024 | MODIFIED | |
| 11-Feb-2022 | DIGENEA Carus, 1863 | 07-Feb-2024 | MODIFIED | Professor Thomas Cribb Ms Jo Wood Russell Yong |
| 11-Feb-2022 | PLAGIORCHIIDA La Rue, 1957 | 07-Feb-2024 | MODIFIED | Professor Thomas Cribb |
| 11-Feb-2022 | PLAGIORCHIIDA La Rue, 1957 | 07-Feb-2024 | MODIFIED | Professor Thomas Cribb (QM) |
| 11-Feb-2022 | PLAGIORCHIIDA La Rue, 1957 | 07-Feb-2024 | MODIFIED | Professor Thomas Cribb |
| 11-Feb-2022 | PLAGIORCHIIDA La Rue, 1957 | 07-Feb-2024 | MODIFIED | Professor Thomas Cribb (QM) |
| 29-Jul-2013 | 07-Feb-2024 | MODIFIED | ||
| 26-Feb-2010 | ADDED |