Species Ceratothoa banksii (Leach, 1818)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cymothoa banksii Leach, W.E. 1818. Cymothoadées. pp. 338-358 in Editor unknown (ed.). Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles. Paris : Strasbourg et Levrault Vol. 12. [2353] [as Cymothoa Banksii Leach, 1818].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1979.402.1 (host unknown), New Zealand.

Generic Combinations

• Ceratothoa banksii (Leach, 1818).
• Ceratothoa banksii (Leach, 1818).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Salmo salar Linnaeus, 1758 [SALMONIDAE] Atlantic Salmon; Paramugil georgii (Ogilby, 1879) [MUGILIDAE] Fantail Mullet; Pseudocaranx dentex (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) [CARANGIDAE] Silver Trevally; Gasterochisma melampus Richardson, 1845 [SCROMBIDAE]; Scatophagus argus (Linnaeus, 1766) [SCATOPHAGIDAE]; Gnathanodon speciosus (Forsskål,, 1775) [CARANGIDAE]; Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1766) [POMATOMIDAE]; Girella tricuspidata (Quoy & Gaimard,, 1824) [GIRELLIDAE]; Selenotoca multifasciata (Richardson, 1846) [SCATOPHAGIDAE]; Latris lineata (Forster, 1801) [LATRIDAE]).

General References

Martin, M.B., Bruce, N.L. & Novak, B.F. 2015. Review of the fish-parasitic genus Ceratothoa Dana, 1852 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from Australia, with description of two new species. Zootaxa 3963(3): 251–294 [254] (redescribed; new records)

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