Species Transversotrema licinum Manter, 1970

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• Transversotrema licinum Manter, H.W. 1970. A new species of Transversotrema (Trematoda: Digenea) from marine fishes of Australia. Journal of Parasitology 56: 486-489 [486].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 70521 wholemount, Dunwich, Stradbroke Island, Moreton Bay, Qld.
  Paratype(s) HWML 638-9 wholemount, Dunwich, Stradbroke Island, Moreton Bay, Qld.

  Type host:

   Scorpis sp. [KYPHOSIDAE]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Abudefduf bengalensis (Bloch, 1787) [POMACENTRIDAE] Bengal Sergeant; Choerodon schoenleinii (Valenciennes, 1839) [LABRIDAE] Blackspot tuskfish; Kyphosus cinerascens (Forsskål, 1775) [KYPHOSIDAE] Blue sea chub; Lutjanus fulviflamma (Forsskål, 1775) [LUTJANIDAE] Dory Snapper; Schuettea scalaripinnis Steindachner, 1866 [MONODACTYLIDAE] Eastern pomfred; Liza argentea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) [MUGILIDAE] Flat-tail Mullet; Monodactylus argenteus (Linnaeus, 1758) [MONODACTYLIDAE] Silver Moony; Paramugil georgii (Ogilby, 1897) [MUGILIDAE] Silver Mullet; Scorpis lineolata Kner, 1865 [KYPHOSIDAE] Silver Sweep; Microcanthus strigatus (Cuvier, 1831) [KYPHOSIDAE] Stripey; Acanthopagrus australis (Günther, 1859) [SPARIDAE] Yellowfin Bream; Acanthopagrus pacificus Iwatsuki, Kume & Yoshino [SPARIDAE]; Scorpis sp. [KYPHOSIDAE]; Girella tricuspidata Quoy & Gaimard [KYPHOSIDAE]; Chanos chanos Forsskål [CHANIDAE]).

General References

Cutmore, S.C., Corner, R.D. & Cribb, T.H. 2023. Morphological constraint obscures richness: a mitochondrial exploration of cryptic richness in Transversotrema (Trematoda: Transversotrematidae). International Journal for Parasitology In press

Cutmore, S.C., Diggles, B.K. & Cribb, T.H. 2016. Transversotrema Witenberg, 1944 (Trematoda: Transversotrematidae) from inshore fishes of Australia: description of a new species and significant range extensions for three congeners. Systematic Parasitology 93: 639-652 [647]

Hunter, J.A. & Cribb, T.H. 2012. A cryptic complex of species related to Transversotrema licinum Manter, 1970 from fishes of the Indo-West Pacific, including descriptions of ten new species of Transversotrema Witenberg, 1944 (Digenea: Transversotrematidae). Zootaxa 3176: 1-44

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