Species Proemotobothrium linstowi (Southwell, 1912)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Otobothrium linstowi Southwell, T. 1912. A description of ten new species of cestode parasites from marine fishes of Ceylon, with notes on other cestodes from the same region. Ceylon Marine Biology Report 1: 259-278.

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1977.11.15.29, Sri Lanka.

  Type host:

   Rhynchobatus djiddensis (Forsskål, 1775) [RHYNCHOBATIDAE] (name of host type in doubt as Rhynchobatus djiddensis Forsskål, 1775, is now found only in the Western Indian Ocean, see Last & Stevens (2009))
• Otobothrium magnum Southwell, T. 1924. Notes on some tetrarhynchid parasites from Ceylon marine fishes. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 18: 459-491 [486].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown types not extant, Sri Lanka.

  Type host:

   Rhynchobatus djiddensis (Forsskål, 1775) [RHYNCHOBATIDAE] (name of host type in doubt as Rhynchobatus djiddensis Forsskål, 1775, is now found only in the Western Indian Ocean, see Last & Stevens 2009)

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Beveridge, I. & Campbell, R.A. 2001. Proemotobothrium n.g. (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha), with the redescription of P. linstowi (Southwell, 1912) n. comb. and description of P. southwelli n. sp. Systematic Parasitology 48: 223-233

 

Generic Combinations

• Proemotobothrium linstowi (Southwell, 1912). —
  Beveridge, I. & Campbell, R.A. 2001. Proemotobothrium n.g. (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha), with the redescription of P. linstowi (Southwell, 1912) n. comb. and description of P. southwelli n. sp. Systematic Parasitology 48: 223-233

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution: Sri Lanka.

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: NE coast, NW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): 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 Australian host material is needed to determine its new name; definitive host)).

 

General References

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 2009. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Australia 2, 550 pp. [302]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
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