Species Prodistomum orientalis (Layman, 1930)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pharyngora orientalis Layman, E.M. 1930. Parasitic worms from the fishes of Peter The Great Bay. Bulletins of the Pacific Scientific Fishery Research Station 3: 1-120.

  Type host:

   Scomber japonicus Houttuyn, 1782 [Scombridae]

Generic Combinations

• Prodistomum orientalis (Layman, 1930). —
  Bray, R.A. & Gibson, D.I. 1990. The Lepocreadiidae (Digenea) of fishes of the north-east Atlantic: review of the genera Opechona Looss, 1907 and Prodistomum Linton, 1910. Systematic Parasitology 15: 159-202

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: parasitic (host(s): Scomber australasicus Cuvier, 1832 [SCOMBRIDAE] Blue Mackerel; Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier, 1816) [SCOMBRIDAE] Indian Mackerel; Etrumeus teres (DeKay, 1842) [DUSSUMIERIIDAE] Red-eye Round Herring).

Metacercariae: parasitic (host(s): Aequorea sp. [AEQUOREIDAE]; Aldersladia magnificus Gershwin, 2006 [AEQUOREIDAE] Crystal jelly; Pukia falcata Gershwin, Zeidler & Davie, 2010 [PUKIIDAE] Sea gooseberry; Geryonia proboscidalis (Forsskål, 1775) [GERYONIIDAE]; 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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