Species Hapalotrema mistroides (Monticelli, 1896)

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• Mesogonimus mistroides Monticelli, F.S. 1896. Di un ematozoo della Thalassochelys caretta Linn. Internationale Monatsschrift für Anatomie und Physiologie. 13(4): 141–172.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, No details provided.

  Type host:

   Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) [CHELONIIDAE] (Reported as Thalassochelys caretta)
• Distoma constrictum Leared, A. 1862. Description of a new parasite found in the heart of the edible turtle. Transactions of the Pathological Society of London 13: 271–273.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, No details provided
  Comment: Host only mentioned as 'the common turtle'.
• Hapalotrema constrictum Looss, A. 1899. Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Trematoden-Fauna Ægyptens, zugleich Versuch einer natürlichen Gliederung des Genus Distomum Retzius. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik 12: 521-784, Taf. 24-32, 2 text-figs.
• Hapalotrema loossi Price, E.W. 1934. New genera and species of blood flukes from a marine turtle, with a key to the genera of the family Spirorichidae. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 24: 132-141 [139] [Proposed as new name for Hapalotrema constrictum (Leared, 1862) Looss, 1899, which Price (1934) considered as a distinct species to Distomum constrictum Leared, 1862.].
• Learedius europaeus Price, E.W. 1934. New genera and species of blood flukes from a marine turtle, with a key to the genera of the family Spirorichidae. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 24: 132-141 [Proposed as a new name for Distoma constrictum Leared, 1862.].

Generic Combinations

• Hapalotrema mistroides (Monticelli, 1896). —
  Stiles, C.W. & Hassall, A. 1908. Index-catalogue of medical and veterinary zoology. Subjects: Trematoda and trematode diseases. U.S. Public Health Service, Hygienic Laboratory Bulletin 37: 401 pp. [279] (New combination)

Introduction

Occurrence in Australian waters only detected through testing infected tissue samples with T-RFLP (Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: endoparasitic (host(s): Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) [CHELONIIDAE] Green sea turtle).

General References

Chapman, P.A., Cribb, T.H., Flint, M., Traub, R.J., Blair, D., Kyaw-Tanner, M.T. & Mills, P.C. 2019. Spirorchiidiasis in marine turtles: the current state of knowledge. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 133: 217–245

Chapman, P.A., Owen, H., Flint, M., Soares Magalhães, F.J., Traub, R.J., Cribb, T.H., Kyaw-Tanner, M.T. & Mills, P.C. 2017. Molecular epidemiology and pathology of spirorchiid infection in green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas). International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 6: 39–47

Chapman, P.A., Traub, R.J., Kyaw-Tanner, M.T., Owen, H., Flint, M., Cribb, T.H. & Mills, P.C. 2016. Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism for the identification of spirorchiid ova in tissues from the green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas. PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science) 11(8)

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