Species Zeuxapta seriolae (Meserve, 1938)

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• Axine seriolae Meserve, F.G. 1938. List of twenty-two species of monogenetic trematodes from the South Pacific. Proceedings of the Minnesota Academy of Science 6: 58.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, SAMA AHC29182, Spencer Gulf, SA.

  Type host:

   Seriola lalandi Valenciennes, 1833 [CARANGIDAE]
• Zeuxapta zyxivaginata Unnithan, R.V. 1957. On the functional morphology of a new fauna of Monogenea on fishes from Trivandrum and environs. Part 1. Axinidae fam. nov. Bulletin of the Research Institute, University of Kerala C 5: 27-122.
• Heteraxine meservei Sproston, N.G. 1946. A synopsis of the monogenetic trematodes. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 25(4): 185-600 [Renaming of A. seriolae Meserve to H. meservei by Sproston (1946) considered unjustified by Yamaguti (1963)].

Generic Combinations

• Zeuxapta seriolae (Meserve, 1938).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Coffs Harbour.

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: ectoparasitic (host(s): Seriola hippos Günther, 1876 [CARANGIDAE] Samson Fish; Seriola lalandi Valenciennes, 1833 [CARANGIDAE] Yellowtail Kingfish).

General References

Hutson, KS., Ernst, I. & Whittington, I.D. 2007. Risk assessment for metazoan parasites of yellowtail kingfish Seriola lalandi (Perciformes: Carangidae) in South Australian sea-cage aquaculture. Aquaculture 271(1-4): 85-99 [88] (Australian host and locality record)

Price, E.W. 1962. North American monogenetic trematodes. XI. The family Heteraxinidae. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington 29(1): 1-18

Price, E.W. 1962. North American monogenetic trematodes. XI. The family Heteraxinidae. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington 29(1): 1-18 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Rohde, K. 1978. Monogenean gill parasites of the kingfish Seriola grandis Castlenau (Carangidae) from the Great Barrier Reef. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 24: 369-376 [369] (Redescription)

Rohde, K. 1981. Ultrastructure of the buccal organs and associated structures of Zeuxapta seriolae (Meserve, 1938) Price, 1962, and Paramicrocotyloides reticularis Rohde, 1978 (Monogenea: Polyopisthocotylea). Zoologischer Anzeiger 5(6): 279-291 [279] (Australian host and locality record)

Yamaguti, S. 1963. Systema Helminthum. Volume IV. Monogenea and Aspidocotylea. New York : Interscience Div., John Wiley & Sons Inc. 699 pp. [264]

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