The Hemiuroidea (Digenea) of pomacentrid fishes (Perciformes) from Heron Island, Queensland, Australia (original) (raw)

Abstract

The following species are described, figured and/or recorded from pomacentrid fishes from the vicinity of the southern Great Barrier Reef coral cay Heron Island, with some mention of comparative material from other host families and locations: Derogenes pearsoni n. sp. from Amblyglyphidodon curacao, Amphiprion akindynos, Plectroglyphidodon lacrymatus (type-host), Pomacentrus chrysurus, P. moluccensis, P. tripunctatus and Pomacentrus sp.; Derogenes pharyngicola n. sp. from Abudefduf whitleyi (type-host) and Plectroglyphidodon dickii; Lecithaster stellatus from Abudefduf sexfasciatus, A. whitleyi, Acanthochromis polyacanthus, Amblyglyphidodon curacao, Chrysiptera flavipinnis, Parma polylepis, Pomacentrus chrysurus, P. moluccensis, P. cf. nagasakiensis, P. cf. pavo, P. vaiuli, P. wardi, Seriola lalandi, Cheilinus diagrammus, Lethrinus miniatus and Choerodon cyanodus from Heron Island plus Acanthopagrus australis and Rhabdosargus sarba from Moreton Bay; Aponurus laguncula from Pomacentrus moluccensis plus Callionymus limiceps, Platycephalus endrachtensis and P. fuscus from Moreton Bay; Hysterolecitha nahaensis from Abudefduf bengalensis, A. sexfasciatus, A. whitleyi, Acanthochromis polyacanthus, Amblyglyphidodon curacao, A. leucogaster, Amphiprion akindynos, A. perideraion, Chromis atripectoralis, C. nitida, C. viridis, Chrysiptera flavipinnis, C. cf. rollandi, Dascyllus aruanus, D. reticulatus, Parma polylepis, Pomacentrus chrysurus, P. moluccensis, P. cf. nagasakiensis, P. nigromarginatus, P. cf. pavo, P. tripunctatus, P. wardi and Pomacentrus sp.; Hysterolecitha heronensis n. sp. from Pomacentrus philippinus (type-host), P. amboinensis, P. moluccensis, P. nigromarginatus and Pomacentrus sp.; Hysterolecitha sp. innom. from Parma polylepis; Thulinia microrchis n. comb. (new syns Hysterolecitha microrchis, H. xesuri, H. tinkeri, Thulinia tinkeri, H. sigani) from Abudefduf bengalensis, A. sexfasciatus, A. whitleyi, Acanthochromis polyacanthus, Amphiprion perideraion, Dascyllus aruanus, D. reticulatus, Dischistodus melanotus, Parma polylepis, Plectroglyphidodon dickii, Pomacentrus amboinensis, P. moluccensis, P. philippinus, P. taeniometopon, Pomacentrus sp. and Stegastes apicalis, plus Chaetodon citrinellus, C. kleinii, Chaetodontoplus meredithi, Lethrinus miniatus, Plectropomus leopardus, Siganus doliatus, S. lineatus and S. vulpinus; Leclthocladium sp. juv from Abudefduf whitleyi, Lecithochirium sp. (? ghanense-group) from Dascyllus aruanus; Lecithochirium sp. juv. from Abudefduf whitleyi; unidentified non-ecsomate hemiuroids from Chrysiptera cf. rollandi, Parma polylepis, Pomacentrus chrysurus, P. wardi and Stegastes apicalis.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Subscribe and save

• Starting from 10 chapters or articles per month
• Access and download chapters and articles from more than 300k books and 2,500 journals
• Cancel anytime View plans

Buy Now

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Similar content being viewed by others

References

• Allen, G.R. (1975) Damselfishes of the South Seas. Hong Kong: TFH Publications, 240 pp.
  Google Scholar
• Beava, O.M. (1965) [Helminth fauna of Cololabis saira from the Pacific Ocean.] In: Leonov, V.A. (Eds) [Parasitic worms of domestic and wild animals.] Vladivostok: Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 33–42 (In Russian).
  Google Scholar
• Bartoli, P. (1990) Spatiotemporal isolation for intestinal digeneans of Mullus surmuletus. Bulletin de la Société Français de Parasitologie, 8, supplement 2 (Abstracts. VII International Congress of Parasitology, Paris) 664.
  Google Scholar
• Beumer, J.P., Ashburner, L.D., Burbury, M.E., Jetté, E. & Latham, D.J. (1983) A checklist of the parasites of fishes from Australia and its adjacent Antarctic Territories. (Technical Communication No. 48 of the Commonwealth Institute of Parasitology), Farnham Royal: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, 99 pp.
  Google Scholar
• Bray, R.A. (1990) Derogenes capricorniensis, sp. nov. (Digenea: Derogenidae), in a blenny from Heron Island, Queensland. Australian Journal of Zoology, 37, 55–58.
  Article Google Scholar
• Bray, R.A. (1991) Hemiuridae (Digenea) from marine fishes of the southern Indian Ocean: genus Lecithochirium Lühe, 1901 (Lecithochiriinae). Systematic Parasitology, 18, 193–219
  Article Google Scholar
• Bray, R.A., Cribb, T.H. & Barker, S.C. (in press) Hemiuridae (Digenea) from marine fishes of the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. Systematic Parasitology.
• Bray, R.A. & MacKenzie, K. (1990) Aponurus laguncula Looss, 1907 (Digenea: Lecithasteridae): a report from herring, Clupea harengus L., in the eastern English Channel and a review of its biology. Systematic Parasitology, 17, 115–124.
  Article Google Scholar
• Bykhovskaya-Pavlovskaya, I.E. (1962) [Key to parasites of freshwater fish of the USSR.] Moscow-Leningrad: Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSR, 776 pp. (In Russian: English translation (1964), Jerusalem: Israel program for scientific translations, 919 pp.)
  Google Scholar
• Couper, A. (Ed.) (1989) The Times Atlas and Encyclopaedia of the Sea. (Second Edition). London: Times Books, 272 pp.
  Google Scholar
• Dyer, W.G., Williams, E.H. Jr & Williams, L.B. (1988) Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of Okinawa, Japan. Journal of Parasitology, 74, 638–645.
  Article PubMed CAS Google Scholar
• Fischthal, J.H. (1980) Some digenetic trematodes of marine fishes from Israel's Mediterranean coast and their zoogeography, especially those from Red Sea immigrant fishes. Zoologica Scripta, 9, 11–23.
  Article Google Scholar
• Fischthal, J.H. & Thomas, J.D. (1971) Some hemiurid trematodes of marine fishes from Ghana. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 38, 181–189.
  Google Scholar
• Gibson, D.I. & Bray, R.A. (1979) The Hemiuroidea: terminology, systematics and evolution. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), (Zoology Series), 36, 35–146.
  Google Scholar
• Gibson, D.I. & Køie, M. (1991) Magnibursatus caudofilamentosa (Reimer, 1971) n. comb. (Digenea: Derogenidae) from the stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus L. in Danish waters: a zoogeographical anomaly? Systematic Parasitology, 20, 221–228
  Article Google Scholar
• Hooper, J.N.A. (1983) Parasites of estuarine and oceanic flathead fishes (family Platycephalidae) from northern New South Wales, Australian Journal of Zoology, supplementary series no. 90, 69 pp.
• Ichihara, A. (1974) Hemiurid trematodes from marine fishes near the Tsushima Islands in the Sea of Japan. Proceedings of the Third International Congress of Parasitology (Munich), 3, 1,614–1,615.
  Google Scholar
• Ichihara, A. (1986) On the helminths of marine fishes in Sagami Bay (II). In: Howell, M.J. (Ed.) Parasitology-quo vadit? Handbook. (Program and Abstracts. Sixth International Congress of Parasitology, Brisbane) Canberra: Australian Academy of Science, 154.
  Google Scholar
• King, R.E. (1964) Three hemiurid trematodes from South Viet Nam. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 83, 435–439.
  Article Google Scholar
• King, R.E. & Noble, E.R. (1961) A new species of Hysterolecitha (Trematoda: Hemiuridae) from the mudsucker Gillichthys mirabilis Cooper. Journal of Parasitology, 47, 465–468.
  Article PubMed CAS Google Scholar
• Korotaeva, V.D. (1970) [Parasite fauna of two species of commercial fish of the family Cheilodactylidae in the region of Australia and New Zealand.] In: Vodjanitskii, V.A. (Ed.) [Problems in marine parasitology. First All-Union Symposium on the parasites and diseases of marine animals, Sevastopol]. Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 44–46 (In Russian).
  Google Scholar
• Lester, R.J.G. & Sewell, K.B. (1990) Checklist of parasites from Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Australian Journal of Zoology, 37, 101–128.
  Article Google Scholar
• Li, Q.-k., Qiu, Z.-z. & Zhang, R.-s. (1989) Digenetic trematodes of fishes from the Bo-hai Sea, China. VI (Trematoda: Opecoelidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 14, 12–16.
  Google Scholar
• Looss, A. (1907) Zur Kenntnis der Distomenfamilie Hemiuridae. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 31, 585–620.
  Google Scholar
• Looss, A. (1908) Beiträge zur Systematik der Distomen. Zur Kenntnis der Familie Hemiuridae. Zoologischer Jahrbücher (Systematik), 26, 63–180.
  Google Scholar
• Machida, M. (1980) Hemiurid trematodes of Kyphosus collected around Cape Shionomisaki, Kii Peninsula. Memoirs of the National Science Museum. Tokyo, 13, 113–120.
  Google Scholar
• Machida, M. (1989) Five hemiurid trematodes from tropical marine fishes of southern Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Series A, 15, 189–195.
  Google Scholar
• Machida, M., Araki, J., Kamiya, H. & Ohbayashi, M. (1972) Trematodes collected from sea fishes of the Hidaka district, Hokkaido. Memoirs of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, 5, 1–9.
  Google Scholar
• Machida, M., Ichihara, A. & Kamegai, S. (1970) Digenetic trematodes collected from the fishes in the sea north of the Tsushima Islands. Memoirs of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, 3, 101–112.
  Google Scholar
• Manter, H.W. (1954) Some digenetic trematodes from fishes of New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 82, 475–568.
  Google Scholar
• Manter, H.W. (1969a) Three new genera of hemiurid trematodes from Australian fishes. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 26, 787–792.
  Google Scholar
• Manter, H.W. (1969b) The occurrence of an accessory excretory vesicle in Prosogonotrema Perez Vigueras, 1940 (Trematoda: Hemiuroidea). Parasitologicheskii Sbornik, 24, 173–177.
  Google Scholar
• Manter, H.W. (1969c) Some digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of New Caledonia. Part IV. Hemiuridae and summary. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 36, 194–204.
  Google Scholar
• Manter, H.W. (1970) The teminology and occurrence of certtain structures of digenetic trematodes, with special reference to the Hemiuroidea. In: Singh, K.S. & Tandan, B.K. (Eds) H.D. Srivastava Commemoration Volume. Izatnagar, pp. 27–33.
• Manter, H.W. & Pritchard, M.H. (1960a) Some hemiurid trematodes from Hawaiian fishes. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 27, 87–102.
  Google Scholar
• Manter, H.W. & Pritchard, M.H. (1960b) Additional hemiurid trematodes from Hawaiian fishes. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 27, 165–180.
  Google Scholar
• Mola, P. (1928) Vermi parassiti dell'ittiofauna Italiana. Bolletino di Pesca, di Piscicoltura e di Idrobiologia, 4, 395–443.
  Google Scholar
• Nagaty, H.F. (1956) Trematodes of fishes from the Red Sea. Part 6. On five distomes including one new genus and four new species. Journal of Parasitology, 42, 151–155.
  Article PubMed CAS Google Scholar
• Naidenova, N.N. (1974) [Parasite fauna of fishes of the family Gobiidae of the Black and Azov Seas. Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 182 pp. (In Russian).
  Google Scholar
• Nicoll, W. (1915) The trematode parasites of north Queensland. III. Parasites of fishes. Parasitology, 8, 22–41.
  Article Google Scholar
• Paggi, L. & Orecchia, P. (1973) Lecithaster blennii n. sp. (Lecithasteridae Skrjabin e Guschanskaja, 1954) parassita dell'intestino di Blennius sanguinolentus. Parassitologia, 15, 261–266.
  PubMed CAS Google Scholar
• Parukhin, A.M. (1964) [New species of trematodes from marine fishes from North Vietnam (Tong King) Bay.] Uchenye Zapiski. Gor'kovskii Gosudarstvennyi Universitet imeni N.I. Lobachevskogo, 62, 119–122 (In Russian).
  Google Scholar
• Parukhin, A.M. (1966) [Helminth fauna of carangid fish from the.South China Sea.] Biologiya Morya, Kiev ([Helminthofauna of animals of the southern seas.]), pp. 80–96 (In Russian).
• Parukhin, A.M. (1976a) [Trematodes of fish in the Indian Ocean.] Biologiya Morya. Kiev, 38, 76–84 (In Russian).
  Google Scholar
• Parukhin, A.M. (1976b) [Parasitic worms of food fishes of the southern seas.] Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 183 pp. (In Russian).
  Google Scholar
• Parukhin, A.M. (1989) [Parasitic worms of bottom fishes of the southern seas.] Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 156 pp. (In Russian).
  Google Scholar
• Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R.C. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea Bathurst: Crawford House Press, 507 pp.
  Google Scholar
• Shen, J.-w. (1990) Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes from Hainan Island. Beijing: Science Publications, 228 pp. (In Chinese, with partial English translation).
  Google Scholar
• Shimazu, T. & Nagasawa, K. (1985) Trematodes of marine fishes from Moroiso Bay, Misaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Journal of Nagano-ken Junior College (Nagano-Ken Tanki Daigaku Kiyo), 40, 7–15.
  Google Scholar
• Srivastava, H.D. (1939) A new parasite of the genus Hysterolecitha Linton, 1910. Indian Journal of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, 9, 73–76.
  Google Scholar
• Toman, G. & Kamegai, S. (1974) Some digenetic trematodes of marine fishes from Saipan, Micronesia, Proceedings of the Third International Congress of Parasitology (Munich), 3, 1617–1618.
  Google Scholar
• Velez, E.I. (1987) Sobre la fauna de trematodos en peces marinos de la familia Lutjanidae en el mar Caribe. Actualidades Biológicas, 16, 70–84.
  Google Scholar
• Wang, P.-q (1982) Hemiuroid trematodes of marine fishes from Fujian Province, China. Journal. Fujian Teacher's University. Natural Science Edition, 2, 67–80.
  Google Scholar
• Yamaguti, S. (1934) Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 2. Trematodes of fishes. I. Japanese Journal of Zoology, 5, 249–541.
  Google Scholar
• Yamaguti, S. (1938) Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 21. Trematodes of fishes, IV. Kyôto: Satyû Yamaguti, 139 pp.
  Google Scholar
• Yamaguti, S. (1940) Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 31. Trematodes of fishes, VII. Japanese Journal of Zoology, 9, 35–108.
  Google Scholar
• Yamaguti, S. (1942) Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 39. Trematodes of fishes mainly from Naha. Transactions of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 3, 329–398.
  Google Scholar
• Yamaguti, S. (1951) Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 48. Trematodes of fishes, X. Arbeiten aus der Medizinischen Fakultät Okayama, 7, 315–334.
  Google Scholar
• Yamaguti, S. (1953) Parasitic worms mainly from Celebes. Part 3. Digenetic trematodes of fishes, II. Acta Medicinae Okayama, 8, 257–295.
  Google Scholar
• Yamaguti, S. (1970) The digenetic trematodes of Hawaiian fishes. Tokyo: Keigaku Publishing Company, 436 pp.
  Google Scholar
• Zhukov, E.V. (1960) Endoparasitic worms of the fishes in the Sea of Japan and South-Kuril shallow-waters. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta. Leningrad, 28, 3–146 (In Russian).
  Google Scholar

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

1. Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD, London, UK
   Rodney A. Bray
2. Queensland Museum, P.O. Box 300, 4101, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
   Thomas H. Cribb
3. Department of Parasitology, University of Queensland, 4072, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
   Stephen C. Barker

Authors

1. Rodney A. Bray
2. Thomas H. Cribb
3. Stephen C. Barker

Rights and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Bray, R.A., Cribb, T.H. & Barker, S.C. The Hemiuroidea (Digenea) of pomacentrid fishes (Perciformes) from Heron Island, Queensland, Australia.Syst Parasitol 24, 159–184 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00010530

Download citation

• Accepted: 06 March 1992
• Issue date: March 1993
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00010530

Keywords