Species Prochristianella clarkeae Beveridge, 1990
- Prochristianella clarkeae Beveridge, I. 1990. Taxonomic revision of Australian Eutetrarhynchidae Guiart (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha). Invertebrate Taxonomy 4: 785-845 [820].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA AHC44132 Slide, Fog Bay, Northern Territory [12°45'S 130°11'E].
Paratype(s) SAMA AHC18320 Slide, Fog Bay, Northern Territory [12°45'S 130°11'E]; BMNH 1989.2.15.9, Fog Bay, NT; USNPC 80599, Fog Bay, NT; SAMA AHC18323 Slides, Cowell, South Australia.Type host:
Himantura uarnak (Forsskål, 1775) [DASYATIDAE] (Parasite from spiral valve.)
Distribution
States
Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Also from waters of Borneo and New Caledonia
IMCRA
Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, N coast, NE coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast
Ecological Descriptors
Endoparasitic (host(s): Dasyatis thetidis Ogilby, 1899 [DASYATIDAE] Black Stingray (definitive host); Maculabatis cf. astra Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & Pogonoski, 2008 [DASYATIDAE] Black-spotted whipray; Maculabatis toshi Whitley, 1939 [DASYATIDAE] Blackspotted Whipray (definitive host); Neotrygon kuhlii (Müller & Henle, 1841) [DASYATIDAE] Bluespotted Maskray (definitive host); Callorhynchus milii (Bory de Sainte-Vincent, 1823) [CALLORHINCHIDAE] Elephant Shark (definitive host); Hemitrygon fluviorum Ogilby, 1908 [DASYATIDAE] Estuary stingray; Glaucostegus typus Anonymous [Bennett], 1830 [GLAUCOSTEGIDAE] Giant shovelnose ray; Spiniraja whitleyi (Iredale, 1938) [RAJIDAE] Melbourne Skate (as Raja whitleyi Iredale, 1938; definitive host); Himantura uarnak (Forsskål, 1775) [DASYATIDAE] Reticulate Whipray (definitive host); Trygonorrhina fasciata Müller & Henle, 1841 [RHINOBATIDAE] Southern Fiddler Ray (definitive host); Rhynchobatus sp. [RHYNCHOBATIDAE] Wedgefish (host originally recorded as Rhynchobatus djiddensis Forsskål, 1775, but this name now applies to a species found only in the Western Indian Ocean; re-examination of host material is needed to determine its new name; definitive host); Aptychotrema vincentiana (Haacke, 1885) [RHINOBATIDAE] Western Shovelnose Ray (definitive host); Dipturus cerva (Whitley, 1939) [RAJIDAE] Whitespotted Skate (definitive host); Urolophus expansus McCulloch, 1916 [UROLOPHIDAE] Wide Stingaree).
Extra Ecological Information
Numerous host species given by Schaeffner & Beveridge (2012)
General References
Beveridge, I 2018. Three new species of acotylean polyclads (Platyhelminthes) from Queensland, Australia, with the erection of a new genus. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 61: 143-153 [134, Figs 59-62]
Schaeffner, B.C. & Beveridge, I. 2012. Prochristianella Dollfus, 1946 (Trypanorhyncha: Eutetrarhynchidae) from elasmobranchs off Borneo and Australia, including new records and the description of four new species. Zootaxa 3505: 1–25 (new records)
History of changes
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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 | |
14-Oct-2024 | MODIFIED |