Species Cephalolepidapedon saba Yamaguti, 1970

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• Cephalolepidapedon saba Yamaguti, S. 1970. Digenetic Trematodes of Hawaiian Fishes. Tokyo : Keigaku Publishing 436 pp.

  Type data:

   Holotype USNHC 63698, Hawaii.

  Type host:

   Scomber japonicus Houttuyn, 1782 [Scombridae]
• Stepanostomum scombri Korotaeva, V.D. 1974. [Helminths of some commercial marine fish of the sub-order Scomberoidei from the Australian region] (In Russian). Izvestiya Tikhookeanskogo Nauchno Issledovatel'skogo Instituta Rybnogo Khozyaistva i Okeanografii (TINRO) 88: 61-66.
• Opechona acanthoris Gaevskaya, A.V. & Aljoshkina, L.D. 1985. [New species of trematodes from the eastern Atlantic] (In Russian). Parazitologiya 19: 105-112.
• Lepocreadium misakiensis Shimazu, T. 1986. Lepocreadium misakiense sp. n. and Neopechona olssoni (Yamaguti, 1934), comb. n. (Trematoda: Lepocreadiidae), parasites of a Japanese marine fish, Scomber japonicus. Zoological Science (Tokyo) 3: 569-571.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bray, R.A. & Cribb, T.H. 2003. New species of Opechona Looss, 1907 and Cephalolepidapedon Yamaguti, 1970 (Digenea: Lepocreadiidae) from fishes off northern Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 137: 1-5

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Scomber australasicus Cuvier, 1832 [SCOMBRIDAE] Blue Mackerel).

Metacercariae: parasitic (host(s): Aldersladia magnificus Gershwin, 2006 [AEQUOREIDAE] Crystal jelly; Chrysaora kynthia Gershwin & Zeidler, 2008 [PELAGIIDAE] Sea Nettle (nomen dubium); Chrysaora pentastoma Péron & Lesueur, 1810 [PELAGIIDAE] Australian Sea Nettle).

General References

Cribb, T.H., Cutmore, S.C., Wee, N.Q-X., Browne, J.G., Morales, P.D. & Pitt, K.A. 2024. Lepocreadiidae (Trematoda) associated with gelatinous zooplankton (Cnidaria and Ctenophora) and fishes in Australian and Japanese waters. Parasitology International 101(102890)

Korotaeva, V.D. 1974. [Helminths of some commercial marine fish of the sub-order Scomberoidei from the Australian region] (In Russian). Izvestiya Tikhookeanskogo Nauchno Issledovatel'skogo Instituta Rybnogo Khozyaistva i Okeanografii (TINRO) 88: 61-66

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