Species Wedlia retrorbitalis (Yamaguti, 1970)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Koellikeria retrorbitalis Yamaguti, S. 1970. Digenetic Trematodes of Hawaiian Fishes. Tokyo : Keigaku Publishing 436 pp. [221].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 63862, Hawaii.

  Type host:

   Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) [SCOMBRIDAE]

Generic Combinations

• Wedlia retrorbitalis (Yamaguti, 1970). —
  Nikolaeva, V.M. 1978. A revision of the subfamily Koellikerinae (Trematoda, Didymozoidae). Russian Journal of Marine Biology (Biologiya morya) 45: 65–71 (New combination)

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: endoparasitic (host(s): Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) [SCOMBRIDAE] Bigeye tuna).

General References

Louvard, C., Cutmore, S.C., Yong, R.Q-Y., Dang, C. & Cribb, T.H. 2022. First elucidation of a didymozoid life cycle: Saccularina magnacetabula n. gen. n. sp. infecting an arcid bivalve. International Journal for Parasitology 52: 407–425 [411]

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