Cableia balistidicola n. sp. (Digenea, Monorchiidae) from Pacific Ocean balistids (Tetraodontiformes) and new reports of Cableia pudica Bray, Cribb and Barker, 1996 in temperate Australian monacanthids.
Cableia balistidicola n. sp. is described from Abalistes stellatus (type-host) off New Caledonia (type-locality) and the Great Barrier Reef and Pseudobalistes fuscus off New Caledonia and Rhinecanthus aculeatus off Moorea, French Polynesia. It is distinguishable by its large ventral sucker with a highly developed sphincter around the aperture. Cableia pudica is reported from Meuschenia freycineti off northern Tasmania, M. hippocrepis off south-western Western Australia and northern Tasmania and Acanthaluteres spilomelanurus off Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Measurements of C. pudica are given and the distinguishing features of the three known species of Cableia are discussed and summarised in a key. C. balistidicola is reported only in balistid fishes in the tropical Pacific Ocean and C. pudica is reported only in monacanthid fishes in Australian coastal waters.
Bray
Rodney A
RA
Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, London, UK. rab@nhm.ac.uk
Justine
Jean-Lou
JL
Cribb
Thomas H
TH
D000818:Animals; D001315:Australia; D005393:Fish Diseases / Q000469:parasitology*; D010140:Pacific Ocean; D013045:Species Specificity; D023721:Tetraodontiformes / Q000469:parasitology*; D014200:Trematoda / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014201:Trematode Infections / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary*