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Phylogeny, evolution and biogeography of the Quadrifoliovariinae Yamaguti, 1965 (Digenea: Lecithasteridae)Clinton B Chambers
Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia
Syst Parasitol 63:61-82. 2006..lobatum (Yamaguti, 1970), which has been recorded from a pomacanthid. The restricted host range of the group is discussed in the light of the phylogeny of the host genus Naso...
Hemipristicola gunterae gen. n., sp. n. (Cestoda: Tetraphyllidea: Phyllobothriidae) from the snaggletooth shark, Hemipristis elongata (Carcharhiniformes: Hemigaleidae), from Moreton Bay, AustraliaScott C Cutmore
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
Folia Parasitol (Praha) 58:187-96. 2011..Hemipristicola gunterae is only the second phyllobothriid species to be described from Hemipristis elongata from Australian waters, and the fourth from the Australian hemigaleids...
Gut wash, body soak, blender and heat-fixation: approaches to the effective collection, fixation and preservation of trematodes of fishesThomas H Cribb
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia
Syst Parasitol 76:1-7. 2010..Preservation for morphological study is best in formalin or alcohol, and alcohol works well for molecular samples. The importance of reliable labelling and the deposition of specimens in museums is emphasised...
Trematode families and genera: have we found them all?Thomas H Cribb
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland 4072, Australia
Trends Parasitol 27:149-54. 2011..However, work for generations of scientists remains in other aspects of trematode biodiversity research, especially in life cycles, phylogeny and biogeography...
The life cycle of Cardicola forsteri (Trematoda: Aporocotylidae), a pathogen of ranched southern bluefin tuna, Thunnus maccoyiThomas H Cribb
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia
Int J Parasitol 41:861-70. 2011....
Adlardia novaecaledoniae n. g., n. sp. (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae) from the fork-tailed threadfin bream Nemipterus furcosus (Val.) (Perciformes: Nemipteridae) off New CaledoniaTerrence L Miller
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Syst Parasitol 73:151-60. 2009....
Gynichthys diakidnus n. g., n. sp. (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae) from the grunt Plectorhinchus gibbosus (Lacépède, 1802) (Perciformes: Haemulidae) off the Great Barrier Reef, AustraliaTerrence L Miller
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, QLD, Australia
Syst Parasitol 74:103-12. 2009..A four helix model was inferred with helices I and IV being relatively short (<30 nucleotides) and helix three being the longest; this structure is homologous with that observed for other digeneans and eukaryotes in general...
Cryptic species of Euryakaina n. g. (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae) from sympatric lutjanids in the Indo-West PacificTerrence L Miller
Biodiversity Program, Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane, QLD, 4101, Australia
Syst Parasitol 77:185-204. 2010..We also report what we interpret here as intraspecific variation in the ITS2 rDNA between individuals of E. manilensis from Lutjanus vitta recovered off the Great Barrier Reef and New Caledonia...
Helicometra Odhner, 1902 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) in Australian waters: problems of species identification and a description of H. sprenti n. spThomas H Cribb
Department of Parasitology and Microbiology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia
Syst Parasitol 63:17-27. 2006..Determination of the ultimate identity of this form will require the application of molecular and life-cycle studies of worms from different hosts and localities...
Staphylorchis cymatodes (Gorgoderidae: Anaporrhutinae) from carcharhiniform, orectolobiform and myliobatiform elasmobranchs of Australasia: low host specificity, wide distribution and morphological plasticityScott C Cutmore
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
Parasitol Int 59:579-86. 2010..The genus Staphylorchis now contains only two valid species, S. cymatodes and S. pacifica...
Natatory-stage cymothoid isopods: description, molecular identification and evolution of attachmentConor M Jones
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
Int J Parasitol 38:477-91. 2008..Our results suggest that ancestral cymothoids attached in the buccal or gill cavity and that external attachment, as seen in Anilocra and Renocila is a derived condition that has arisen more than once...
Coevolution of Retrovarium n. gen. (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae) in Lutjanidae and Haemulidae (Perciformes) in the Indo-West PacificTerrence L Miller
School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Int J Parasitol 37:1023-45. 2007..Overall, Retrovarium appears to have had an exceptionally patchy radiation, failing to infect many taxa, infecting species with no readily discernible pattern, and radiating dramatically within one species...
First report of intramolluscan stages of a gorgoderid digenean from a marine bivalveNathan J Bott
Department of Microbiology and Parasitology and Centre for Marine Studies, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
J Parasitol 91:838-42. 2005..Phylogenetic analysis also suggests that the species belongs to the Gorgoderinae. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a gorgoderid from a marine bivalve...
Characterization of Kudoa monodactyli n. sp. (Myxosporea: Multivalvulida) from the Muscle of Monodactylus argenteus (Teleostei: Monodactylidae) from Moreton Bay, Queensland, AustraliaNicole L Gunter
School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
J Eukaryot Microbiol 53:374-8. 2006..Phylogenetic analyses also provide evidence that the number of valves per spore in this genus is an imperfect indicator of relatedness...
The use and implications of ribosomal DNA sequencing for the discrimination of digenean speciesMatthew J Nolan
School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences and Centre for Marine Studies, Parasitology Section, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
Adv Parasitol 60:101-63. 2005..We propose a generalised approach to the use of rDNA to distinguish trematode species...
Chaulioleptos haywardi n. gen., n. sp. (Digenea: Sanguinicolidae) from Filimanus heptadactyla (Perciformes: Polynemidae) of Moreton Bay, AustraliaMatthew J Nolan
Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Centre for Marine Studies, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
J Parasitol 91:630-4. 2005..Chaulioleptos haywardi is most closely related to Paracardicola Martin, 1960 and Adelomyllos Nolan and Cribb, 2004...
Two new species of flukes (Digenea: Bucephalidae: Prosorhynchinae) from the western Moray Gymnothorax woodwardi (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) from off western Australia, with replacement of the pre-occupied generic name Folliculovarium Gu & Shen, 1983Matthew J Nolan
The School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia
Syst Parasitol 76:81-92. 2010..M. botti n. sp. also lacks a metraterm. These are the first reports of these genera from fishes off Australia and from the southern hemisphere...
The life cycle of Paracardicoloides yamagutii Martin, 1974 (Digenea: Sanguinicolidae)Matthew J Nolan
Department of Microbiology and Parasitology and the Centre for Marine Studies, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
Folia Parasitol (Praha) 51:320-6. 2004..P. yamagutii is the fourth sanguinicolid known to utilise a freshwater hydrobiid gastropod as its intermediate host. ITS2 rDNA is effective in distinguishing sanguinicolids at the species level...
Rhaphidotrema kiatkiongi, a new genus and species of blood fluke (Digenea: Aporocotylidae) from Arothron hispidus (Osteichthyes: Tetraodontidae) from the Great Barrier Reef, AustraliaRussell Q Y Yong
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
Folia Parasitol (Praha) 58:273-7. 2011..This is the second species of aporocotylid fluke reported from this pufferfish...
Grammatorcynicola n. g. (Bucephalidae: Dolichoenterinae) from Grammatorcynus spp. (Scombridae) on the Great Barrier Reef, AustraliaNathan J Bott
Department of Microbiology and Parasitology and Centre for Marine Studies, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
Syst Parasitol 61:93-8. 2005..Grammatorcynicola n. g. differs from other dolichoenterine genera in having a simple sucker-like rhynchus, the ovary anterior to the testes and by not having a particularly thick cirrus-sac wall...
A new genus and species of cryptogonimid from Lutjanus spp. (Pisces: Lutjanidae) on the Great Barrier Reef and New CaledoniaTerrence L Miller
Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
J Parasitol 91:922-4. 2005....
First report of a bucephalid digenean from an apogonid teleost: Prosorhynchoides apogonis n. sp. from Cheilodipterus macrodon on the southern Great Barrier Reef, AustraliaNathan J Bott
Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Centre for Marine Studies, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
Syst Parasitol 60:33-7. 2005....
Diversity in the Monogenea and Digenea: does lifestyle matter?Thomas H Cribb
Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, The University of Queensland, 4072, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Int J Parasitol 32:321-8. 2002..In contrast, most higher- level monogenean diversity (other than that associated with the subclasses) relates principally to morphological specialisation for attachment by the haptor...
Opecoelidae (Digenea) in northern great barrier reef goatfishes (Perciformes: Mullidae)Christoph Andreas Rohner
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
Syst Parasitol 84:237-53. 2013..The Opecoelidae of GBR goatfishes are consistent with the typical pattern of stenoxenicity seen for trematodes of GBR fishes...
Prosorhynchine trematodes (Digenea: Bucephalidae) from epinephelines (Perciformes: Serranidae) on the Great Barrier Reef, AustraliaNathan J Bott
School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia
Syst Parasitol 72:57-69. 2009..Extensive examinations of other piscivorous fish species from the Great Barrier Reef have not revealed these six bucephalid species, which appear to be restricted at least to the host genera from which they are reported here...
Life cycle evolution in the digenea: a new perspective from phylogenyThomas H Cribb
Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Centre for Marine Studies, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072 Australia
Adv Parasitol 54:197-254. 2003..Diplostomida have no adult stages in fishes except by life cycle abbreviation. We present and test a radical hypothesis that the blood-fluke cycle is plesiomorphic within the Diplostomida...
Phylogenetic relationships of some common Indo-Pacific snappers (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences, with comments on the taxonomic position of the CaesioninaeTerrence L Miller
School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Mol Phylogenet Evol 44:450-60. 2007..quinquelineatus, formed a strongly supported clade. Lutjanus bohar and L. gibbus, both distinctly red, long-lived fish that often accumulate large quantities of ciguatera toxin in their tissues, were resolved as sister taxa...
Infracommunity structure of parasites of Hemigymnus melapterus (Pisces: Labridae) from Lizard Island, Australia: the importance of habitat and parasite body sizeGabriela Muñoz
School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Queensland, Australia
J Parasitol 91:38-44. 2005..Parasite and habitat size exhibited interesting relationships that should be considered more frequently. Considerations of these parameters improve understanding of parasite community structure and how the parasites use their habitats...
Scorpidotrema longistipes n. g., n. sp. (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from Scorpis georgiana (Teleostei: Scorpididae) from southern Western AustraliaThomas H Cribb
Centre for Marine Studies and Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
Syst Parasitol 54:97-102. 2003..This new genus forms part of a distinctive fauna of trematodes restricted to Australian southern temperate fishes...
Sanguinicola maritimus n. sp. (Digenea: Sanguinicolidae) from Labridae (Teleostei: Perciformes) of southern Australian watersMatthew J Nolan
Department of Microbiology and Parasitology and Centre for Marine Studies, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia. m.nolan.uq.edu.au
Syst Parasitol 61:99-106. 2005..S. maritimus also lacks a protrusible anterior proboscis. It also differs in the combination of host and geographical location, being the first Sanguinicola species from a marine teleost and the first from Australian waters...
A new tetraphyllidean genus and species, Caulopatera pagei n. g., n. sp. (Tetraphyllidea: Phyllobothriidae), from the grey carpetshark Chiloscyllium punctatum Müller & Henle (Orectolobiformes: Hemiscylliidae)Scott C Cutmore
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Syst Parasitol 77:13-21. 2010....
Taxonomy, host-specificity and biogeography of Symmetrovesicula Yamaguti, 1938 (Digenea: Fellodistomidae) from chaetodontids (Teleostei: Perciformes) in the tropical Indo-west Pacific regionAbigail J Downie
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Syst Parasitol 78:1-18. 2011..gracilis n. sp. from off Ningaloo Reef, the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland and New Caledonia. Both species exhibit distinct restrictions to certain clades of chaetodontids...
A new species of Dactylostomum Woolcock, 1935 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from the goatfish Upeneichthys lineatus (Bloch & Schneider) (Mullidae) in Western Australian watersThomas H Cribb
Department of Parasitology and Microbiology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Q 4072, Australia
Syst Parasitol 56:63-8. 2003..This is the second report of Dactylostomum Woolcock, 1935 from an Australian marine fish. The new species is distinguished by its elongate form, simple ventral sucker papillae and irregularly shaped ovary...
Paraorygmatobothrium taylori n. sp. (Tetraphyllidea: Phyllobothriidae) from the Australian weasel shark Hemigaleus australiensis White, Last & Compagno (Carcharhiniformes: Hemigaleidae)Scott C Cutmore
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Syst Parasitol 74:49-58. 2009..Three of the eight known hemigaleid species are now recorded to harbour this genus, and three different species are now known from the two hemigaleids found in Australian waters...
Ankistromeces mariae n. g., n. sp. (Digenea: Sanguinicolidae) from Meuschenia freycineti (Monacanthidae) off TasmaniaMatthew J Nolan
Department of Microbiology and Parasitology and Centre for Marine Studies, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
Syst Parasitol 57:151-7. 2004..A. mariae is the first sanguinicolid to be reported from a monacanthid fish...
Two new blood flukes (Digenea: Sanguinicolidae) from Epinephelinae (Perciformes: Serranidae) of the Pacific OceanMatthew J Nolan
Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, The Centre for Marine Studies, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
Parasitol Int 53:327-35. 2004..A. teenae n. sp. is the third sanguinicolid described from the Epinephelinae. Sanguinicolids have now been reported from 11 species of Serranidae...
Parasites of QX-resistant and wild-type Sydney rock oysters (Saccostrea glomerata) in Moreton Bay, SE Queensland, Australia: diversity and host responseCécile Dang
The University of Queensland, School of Biological Science and Centre for Marine Science, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
J Invertebr Pathol 112:273-7. 2013..Surprisingly, no difference in prevalence of QX disease was observed between the two oyster lines...
The importance of host ecology in thelastomatoid (Nematoda: Oxyurida) host specificityAaron R Jex
School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia
Parasitol Int 55:169-74. 2006..No overlap in thelastomatoid fauna was observed between the log dwelling and leaf-litter dwelling groups. Our results suggest that host specificity of thelastomatoids is largely dictated by host ecology...
