Species Temnohaswellia simulator (Haswell, 1924)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Temnocephala simulator Haswell, W.A. 1924. Critical notes on the Temnocephaloidea. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49: 509-521 [513] [name proposed with only a very brief footnote and in-text description].
• Temnohaswellia tetrica 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)].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM GL15480, Aplin Weir on Ross River, Townsville [19°22'S, 146°44'E].

  Type host:

   Caridina sp. [ATYIDAE] (Possibly C. nilotica; considered a spurious record)

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 simulator (Haswell, 1924). —
  Cannon, L.R.G. 1993. New temnocephalans (Platyhelminthes): ectosymbionts of freshwater crabs and shrimps. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33: 17-40 [31]

Introduction

The name, Temnocephala simulator, was proposed by Haswell (1924) for a previously undescribed brown, six-tentacled temnocephalan, similar in anatomy to T. comes and in the development of spermatophores. The species was subsequently reassigned to Temnohaswellia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Barrengarry Creek, above Belmore Falls, New South Wales, Australia. See Haswell (1924).

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Euastacus armatus von Martens, 1866 [PARASTACIDAE] (Identity of host is uncertain as the individual was a juvenile); Euastacus dangadi Morgan, 1997 [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus gumar Morgan, 1997 [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus spinichelatus Morgan, 1997 [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus neohirsutus Riek, 1956 [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus sulcatus Riek, 1951 [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus suttoni Clark, 1941 [PARASTACIDAE]; Euastacus valentulus Riek, 1951 [PARASTACIDAE]).

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 [513]

Sibraa, L., Barton, D. & Shamsi, S. 2022. Occurrence of Temnocephalidae flatworms in Australia. Journal of Natural History 55(45–46): 2879–2907

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