Species Pyriproboscis heronensis (Pichelin, 1997)

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• Pomphorhynchus heronensis Pichelin, S. 1997. Pomphorhynchus heronensis sp. nov. (Acanthocephala: Pomphorhynchidae) fom Lutjanus carponotatus (Lutjanidae) from Heron Island, Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 30(1): 19-27 [19].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC30345 (♂), Heron Island, Queensland, Australia [23°27'S, 151°55'E].
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC27665-27683, 30346, as for holotype.

  Type host:

   Lutjanus carponotatus Richardson, 1842 [LUTJANIDAE]

Generic Combinations

• Pyriproboscis heronensis (Pichelin, 1997). —
  Amin, O.M., Abdullah, S.M.A. & Mhaisen, F.T. 2003. Description of Pomphorhynchus spindletruncatus n. sp. (Acanthocephala: Pomphorhynchidae) from freshwater fishes in northern Iraq, with the erection of a new pomphorhynchid genus, Pyriproboscis n. g., and keys to the genera of the Pomphorhynchidae and the species of Pomphorhynchus Monticelli, 1905. Systematic Parasitology 54(3): 229-235 [233]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Lutjanus carponotatus Richardson, 1842 [LUTJANIDAE]; Halophryne diemensis Lesueur, 1824 [BATRACHOIDIDAE]; Cheilinus trilobatus Lacépède, 1801 [LABRIDAE]).

Associated Fauna References

Smales, L.R. & Weaver, H.J. 2015. An annotated checklist of Acanthocephala from Australian fish. Zootaxa 3985(3): 349-374 [357] (Halophryne diemensis)

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