Species Temnohaswellia comes (Haswell, 1893)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Temnocephala comes Haswell, W.A. 1893. A monograph of the Temnocephaleae. Macleay Memorial Volume of Linnean Society of New South Wales (Sydney) 96: 93-152 [Type data not provided].
• Temnohaswellia pugna Cannon, L.R.G. 1993. New temnocephalans (Platyhelminthes): ectosymbionts of freshwater crabs and shrimps. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33: 17-40 [this species was described as an ectocommensal of an unidentified species of Caridina (possibly as C. nilotica (P. Roux, 1833)) by Cannon (1993) - currently considered a spurious record].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM GL14579, Aplin Weir on Ross River, Townsville [19°22'S, 146°44'E].

  Type host:

   Caridina sp. [ATYIDAE] (possibly C. nilotica)

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sewell, K.B., Cannon, L.R.G. & Blair, D. 2006. A review of Temnohaswellia and Temnosewellia (Platyhelminthes: Temnocephalida: Temnocephalidae), ectosymbionts from Australian crayfish Eustacus (Parastacidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 52: 199-279 [207]

Generic Combinations

• Temnohaswellia comes (Haswell, 1893). —
  Pereira, C. & Cuocolo, R. 1941. Estudos sobre Temnocephalidae Monticelli, 1899 com estabelecimento di dios novos géneros australianos e descrição de duas novas espécies neotropicas. Arquivos do Instituto Biologico, São Paulo 12: 101-127, 22 figs (new combination)
  Cannon, L.R.G. 1993. New temnocephalans (Platyhelminthes): ectosymbionts of freshwater crabs and shrimps. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33: 17-40 [31] (discussion on validity of Temnohaswellia)

Introduction

Detailed descriptions of the anatomy of T. comes are provided by Haswell (1924).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

(as Temnocephala comes); unspecified locations, Australia; ex carapace Euastacus spinifer (Heller, 1865) (record as Astacopsis serratus Shaw); sympatric with T. fasciata. See Haswell (1893).

(as Temnocephala comes); Western Australia, Australia; ex carapace Euastacus spinifer (Heller, 1865) (record as Astacopsis serratus Shaw). See Schaefer (1971).

Aplin Weir on Ross River, Townsville, north Queensland, Queensland, Australia. See Cannon (1993).

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Euastacus hirsutus (McCulloch, 1917) [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus gumar Morgan, 1997 [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus australasiensis (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus brachythorax Riek, 1969 [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus clarkae Morgan, 1997 [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus dangadi Morgan, 1997 [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus dharawalus Morgan, 1997 [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus jagara Morgan, 1988 [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus maidae (Riek, 1956) [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus mirangudjin Coughran, 2002 [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus neohirsutus Riek, 1956 [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus polysetosus Riek, 1951 [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus gamilaroi Morgan, 1997 [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus guwinus (c.f. dharawalus) Morgan, 1997 [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus valentulus Riek, 1951 [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus yanga Morgan, 1997 [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus spinifer (Heller, 1865) [PARASTACIDAE] (Reported as Astacopsis serratus in some studies); Caridina sp. [ATYIDAE] (possibly C. nilotica; considered a spurious record); Hyridella (Hyridella) depressa (Lamarck, 1819) [HYRIIDAE] (Considered a spurious record); Euastacus setosus (Riek, 1956) [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus spinichelatus Morgan, 1997 [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus sulcatus Riek, 1951 [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus suttoni Clark, 1941 [PARASTACIDAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Ectocommensal of freshwater atyid prawns (Caridina sp.). See Cannon (1993).

General References

Cannon, L.R.G. 1993. New temnocephalans (Platyhelminthes): ectosymbionts of freshwater crabs and shrimps. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33: 17-40

Haswell, W.A. 1924. Critical notes on the Temnocephaloidea. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49: 509-521 [512]

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