Prethura Hutchingsae, New Genus, New Species, an Asellote Isopod from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia (Crustacea: Isopoda: Pleurocopidae)

1982 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Kensley
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Barrier Reef

scholarly journals A new order of fishes as hosts of blood flukes (Aporocotylidae); description of a new genus and three new species infecting squirrelfishes (Holocentriformes, Holocentridae) on the Great Barrier Reef

Parasite ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Scott C. Cutmore ◽  
Thomas H. Cribb
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Genital Pore ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Posterior Extremity ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Blood Flukes ◽  
Lizard Island ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Male Genital

A new genus and three new species of blood flukes (Aporocotylidae) are described from squirrelfishes (Holocentridae) from the Great Barrier Reef. Holocentricola rufus n. gen., n. sp. is described from Sargocentron rubrum (Forsskål), from off Heron Island, southern Great Barrier Reef, and Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Holocentricola exilis n. sp. and Holocentricola coronatus n. sp. are described from off Lizard Island, H. exilis from Neoniphon sammara (Forsskål) and H. coronatus from Sargocentron diadema (Lacepède). Species of the new genus are distinct from those of all other aporocotylid genera in having a retort-shaped cirrus-sac with a distinct thickening at a marginal male genital pore. The new genus is further distinct in the combination of a lanceolate body, X-shaped caeca, posterior caeca that are longer than anterior caeca, a single, post-caecal testis that is not deeply lobed, a post-caecal, post-testis ovary that is not distinctly bi-lobed, and a post-ovarian uterus. The three new species can be morphologically delineated based on the size and row structure of the marginal spines, as well by total length, oesophagus and caecal lengths, and the position of the male genital pore, testes and ovary relative to the posterior extremity. The three species of Holocentricola are genetically distinct from each other based on cox1 mtDNA and ITS2 rDNA data, and in phylogenetic analyses of 28S rDNA form a well-supported clade sister to species of Neoparacardicola Yamaguti, 1970. This is the first report of aporocotylids from fishes of the family Holocentridae and the order Holocentriformes.

The genus Microrchestia (Amphipoda: Talitridae) in eastern Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2349 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
J. K. LOWRY ◽  
R. PEART
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New South ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
First Time

Microrchestia is reported from Australia for the first time and two new species are described, M. bousfieldi sp. nov. from northern New South Wales and M. watsonae sp. nov. from the northern Great Barrier Reef. The new genus Cochinorchestia is established for Microrchestia notabilis (K.H. Barnard), originally described from the Cochin area in south-eastern India.

A new species of Stephanostomum Looss, 1899 (Digenea, Acanthocolpidae) with a bizarre oral sucker: S. adlardi sp. nov. from the common coral trout Plectropomus leopardus (Lacepède, 1802) (Perciformes, Serranidae) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney Bray ◽  
Thomas Cribb ◽  
Andrea Waeschenbach ◽  
D. Littlewood
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Oral Sucker ◽  
Ribosomal Rna ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Coral Trout ◽  
Lizard Island ◽  
The Common ◽  
Plectropomus Leopardus ◽  
A New Species

AbstractA new species of Acanthocolpidae, Stephanostomum adlardi is described from the serranid Plectropomus leopardus from Lizard Island in the northern Great Barrier Reef. It differs from all previously described acanthocolpids in the structure of the oral sucker which is extended into dorsal and ventral lobes each bearing a row of spines. A phylogenetic tree estimated from combined nuclear small and partial large ribosomal RNA gene sequences shows that, despite the unusual oral sucker structure, the species is a true member of the genus Stephanostomum. The molecular results also suggest that Monostephanostomum nolani is derived from within Stephanostomum.

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