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Species Pterobothrium acanthotruncatum Escalante & Carrajal, 1984

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution: India, Sri Lanka, Peru.


drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, NE coast

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Lates calcarifer (Bloch, 1790) [LATIDAE] Barramundi (intermediate host); Protonibea diacanthus (Lacépède, 1802) [SCIAENIDAE] Black Jewfish (intermediate host); Carcharhinus limbatus (Valenciennes, 1839) [CARCHARHINIDAE] Common Blacktip Shark (intermediate host); Pristis zijsron Bleeker, 1851 [PRISTIDAE] Green Sawfish (intermediate host); Rhizoprionodon acutus (Rüppell, 1837) [CARCHARHINIDAE] Milk Shark (intermediate host); Scomberomorus commerson (Lacépède, 1800) [SCOMBRIDAE] Spanish Mackerel (intermediate host)).

Extra Ecological Information

The identity of Australian material is uncertain Campbell, R.A. & Beveridge, I. 1996. Revision of the family Pterobothridae Pintner, 1931 (Cestoda : Trypanorhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 617–662.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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20-May-2023 CESTODA 14-Oct-2024 MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022 CESTODA 14-Oct-2024 MODIFIED
25-Jan-2022 CESTODA 14-Oct-2024 MODIFIED
25-Jan-2022 TRYPANORHYNCHA Diesing, 1863 14-Oct-2024 MODIFIED Ms Jo Wood
26-Nov-2015 CESTODA 14-Oct-2024 MODIFIED
06-Feb-2014 CESTODA 14-Oct-2024 MODIFIED
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