Species Zygorhynchus robertsoni Beveridge & Campbell, 1988
- Zygorhynchus robertsoni Beveridge, I. & Campbell, R.A. 1988. A review of the Tetrarhynchobothriidae Dollfus, 1969 (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha) with descriptions of two new genera, Didymorhynchus and Zygorhynchus. Systematic Parasitology 12: 3-29 [21].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA AHC44093 Slides, Fog Bay, Northern Territory.
Paratype(s) SAMA AHC17255, Fog Bay, Northern Territory; BMNH 1987.8.25.2, Fog Bay, NT.Type host:
Himantura australis Last, White & Naylor, 2016 [DASYATIDAE] ((Originally identified as Himantura uarnak (Forsskål, 1775) [misidentification of widespread Indo-west Pacific species, which is absent from Australia and New Guinea]. Parasite from spiral valve))
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Gulf of Carp., N coast
Ecological Descriptors
Endoparasitic (host(s): Maculabatis toshi Whitley, 1939 [DASYATIDAE] Brown Whipray; Dasyatis leylandi Last, 1987 [DASYATIDAE] Painted Maskray (definitive host); Himantura uarnak (Forsskål, 1775) [DASYATIDAE] Reticulate Whipray (definitive host); Aetobatus ocellatus Kuhl, 1823 [MYLIOBATIDAE] Whitespotted Eagle Ray; Alpheus papillosus Banner & Banner, 1982 [ALPHEIDAE]).
General References
Beveridge, I 2018. Three new species of acotylean polyclads (Platyhelminthes) from Queensland, Australia, with the erection of a new genus. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 61: 143-153 [136, Figs 67-69]
History of changes
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| 20-May-2023 | CESTODA | 20-May-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 05-Aug-2022 | CESTODA | 21-Apr-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 25-Jan-2022 | CESTODA | 20-May-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 25-Jan-2022 | TRYPANORHYNCHA Diesing, 1863 | 20-May-2023 | MODIFIED | Ms Jo Wood |
| 26-Nov-2015 | CESTODA | 20-May-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 06-Feb-2014 | CESTODA | 20-May-2023 | MODIFIED | |
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