Journal article
Diversity of trypanorhynch metacestodes in teleost fishes from coral reefs off eastern Australia and New Caledonia
I Beveridge, RA Bray, TH Cribb, JL Justine
Parasite | Published : 2014
Abstract
Trypanorhynch metacestodes were examined from teleosts from coral reefs in eastern Australia and from New Caledonia. From over 12,000 fishes examined, 33 named species of trypanorhynchs were recovered as well as three species of tentacularioids which are described but not named. Host-parasite and parasite-host lists are provided, including more than 100 new host records. Lacistorhynchoid and tentacularioid taxa predominated with fewer otobothrioid and gymnorhynchoids. Five species, Callitetrarhynchus gracilis, Floriceps minacanthus, Pseudotobothrium dipsacum, Pseudolacistorhynchus heroniensis and Ps. shipleyi, were particularly common and exhibited low host specificity. Limited data suggeste..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Collecting on the GBR was funded by the Australian Research Council and the Australian Biological Resources Study, the latter in part through the CReefs Program. In New Caledonia, the following students of JLJ participated in the parasitological survey: Julie Mounier, Charles Beaufrere, Anais Guillou, Audrey Guerin, Damien Hinsinger, Eric Bureau, Chloe Journo, Violette Justine, Amandine Marie, Aude Sigura, Sophie Olivier, Guilhem Rascalou, Geraldine Colli, Lenaig Hemery, Pierpaolo Brena, Cyndie Dupoux, Isabelle Mary, Adeline Grugeaud, Marine Briand and Charlotte Schoelinck. Claude Chauvet (UNC, Noumea) provided several fishes. Angelo di Matteo (IRD) provided technical help. Visiting colleagues who participated were Ian Beveridge, Louis Euzet, Eva Rehulkova, Frantisek Moravec, Milan Gelnar, Bernard Marchand and Susan Lim. Certain fishes from New Caledonia were identified (often from photographs) by Jack Randall (Bishop Museum, Hawaii), Ronald Fricke (Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany), Kent E. Carpenter (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA), Philippe Borsa (IRD, Noumea), Bernard Seret (IRD and MNHN, Paris) and Samuel Iglesias (MNHN, Paris).