Holorchis gigas n. sp. (Digenea: Lepocreadiidae) from the yellow-striped sweet-lips Plectorhinchus chrysotaenia (Perciformes: Haemulidae) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, with observations on Aephnidiogenes major
Author
Bray, Rodney A.
Author
Cribb, Thomas H.
text
Zootaxa
2007
1517
63
68
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.177356
59f9ca88-c151-4279-be17-24a74023886f
1175-5326
177356
Aephnidiogenes major
Yamaguti, 1934
(
Fig. 3
)
Hosts:
Diagramma labiosum
Macleay, 1883
,
Haemulidae
, mother-in-law;
Plectorhinchus chrysotaenia
(Bleeker, 1855)
,
Haemulidae
, yellow-striped sweet-lips.
Site:
Intestine.
Localities:
D. labiosum
Heron
Island (
23°27’S
,
151°55’E
;
July 1994
& July, 2001); Lizard Island (
14°40’S
,
145°28’E
; Dec, 2000,
June 2005
, April, 2006).
P. chrysotaenia
, Lizard
Island (
14°40’S
,
145°28’E
;
June 2005
).
Prevalence:
D. labiosum
Heron
Island 2 of 9 (22%), Lizard Island 4 of 9 (44%);
P. chrysotaenia
1 or 4 (25%).
Voucher specimens:
D. labiosum
QM G223059–223065,
BMNH
2006.11.8.149–155;
P. chrysotaenia
. QM G223066.