Species Contracaecum ogmorhini Johnston & Mawson, 1941

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• Contracaecum ogmorhini Johnston, T.H. & Mawson, P.M. 1941. Nematodes from Australian marine mammals. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 6(4): 429-434 [429].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC41268 Vial (same registration no. as Allotype), Port Adelaide, South Australia.
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC41268 (Allotype), AHC1581 Vials, Port Adelaide, South Australia.

  Type host:

   Hydrurga leptonyx (Blainville, 1820) [PHOCIDAE]

Introduction

Reports from Hossen et al. (2021) and Hossen et al. (2023) are of larval specimens; specimens were genetically matched to adult specimens of C. ogmorhini in Shamsi et al. (2009).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

South Australia: Port Adelaide. See Johnston & Mawson (1941).

Victoria, Australia: Cape Woolamai; Sorrento. See Shamsi et al. (2009).

New South Wales, Australia: Nelson Bay; Manning River, Taree. see Hossen et al. (2021).

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Scomber australasicus Cuvier, 1832 [SCOMBRIDAE] Blue mackerel; Hydrurga leptonyx (Blainville, 1820) [PHOCIDAE] Leopard Seal; Platycephalus richardson Castelnau, 1872 [PLATYCEPHALIDAE] Tiger flathead; Platycephalus bassensis Cuvier, 1829 [PLATYCEPHALIDAE] Southern sand flathead; Platycephalus fuscus Cuvier, 1829 [PLATYCEPHALIDAE] Dusky flathead; Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus Jones, 1925 [OTARIIDAE] Australian fur seal; Arctocephalus forsteri (Lesson, 1828) [OTARIIDAE] New Zealand fur seal).

General References

Hossen, M.S., Suthar, J., Wassens, S. & Shamsi, S. 2023. Occurrence and molecular identification of nematodes from blue mackerel Scomber australasicus Cuvier in Australian waters. Parasitology International 92(102664): 1–12

Hossen, M.S., Wassens, S. & Shamsi, S. 2021. Integrative species delimitation and community structure of nematodes in three species of Australian flathead fishes (Scorpaeniformes: Platycephalidae). Parasitology Research 120: 461–480

Shamsi, S. 2014. Recent advances in our knowledge of Australian anisakid nematodes. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 3: 178-187 (discusses earlier synonymy with C. osculatum, and separation of C. margolisi)

Shamsi, S., Norman, R., Gasser, R. & Beveridge, I. 2009. Redescription and genetic characterization of selected Contracaecum spp. (Nematoda: Anisakidae) from various hosts in Australia. Parasitology Research 104: 1507–1525

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