Multitestis Manter 1931 (Digenea: Lepocreadiidae) in ephippid and chaetodontid fishes (Perciformes) in the south-western Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean off Western Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2427 (1) ◽  
pp. 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
RODNEY A. BRAY ◽  
THOMAS H. CRIBB ◽  
JEAN-LOU JUSTINE
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Western Pacific Ocean ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Lizard Island ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Oval Body

Five species of the genus Multitestis are described, figured or discussed: Multitestis pyriformis from Platax orbicularis off Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia and Platax teira off New Caledonia; Multitestis coradioni n. sp. (syn. Multitestis pyriformis Machida, 1963 of Bray et al. (1994)) from Coradion chrysozonus off Heron Island, which differs from M. pyriformis in its oval body-shape, the more posteriorly situated testicular fields and larger eggs, Multitestis elongatus from Platax pinnatus off Lizard Island, Multitestis magnacetabulum from P. teira off Heron Island, southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia, and New Caledonia, Multitestis paramagnacetabulum n. sp. from P. orbicularis off Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia, which differs from M. magnacetabulum in the more posteriorly situated testicular fields.

New observations on the genus Hypocreadium Ozaki, 1936 (Digenea: Lepocreadiidae) in the Indo-West Pacific region, including the description of one new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2110 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
RODNEY A. BRAY ◽  
THOMAS H. CRIBB ◽  
JEAN-LOU JUSTINE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
West Pacific ◽  
Atypical Form ◽  
Lizard Island ◽  
One New Species

The following members of the genus Hypocreadium are described or redescribed: Hypocreadium cavum from the starry triggerfish, Abalistes stellatus, Swain Reefs, Great Barrier Reef; Hypocreadium patellare ‘Typical form’ from Abalistes stellatus, Swain Reefs, the masked triggerfish, Sufflamen fraenatum, Ningaloo, Western Australia and off New Caledonia and the titan triggerfish, Balistoides viridescens, off Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef; Hypocreadium patellare ‘Atypical form A’ from the black-bar triggerfish, Rhinecanthus aculeatus, off Lizard Island and Palau and blackbelly triggerfish, R. verrucosus, off Palau; Hypocreadium patellare ‘Atypical form B’ from the yellow-spotted triggerfish, Pseudobalistes fuscus off Lizard Island; Hypocreadium picasso n. sp. from Rhinecanthus aculeatus, off Lizard Island and Palau, characterised by its broadly pyriform shape and lack of an anterior notch. A key to the species of Hypocreadium is presented. The similarity of the genus Lutianotrema to Hypocreadium is pointed out, but both known species of Lutianotrema are described with ‘dorsal’ oral suckers.

Revision of Affecauda Hall & Chambers, 1999 (Digenea: Gyliauchenidae Fukui, 1929), including the description of two new species from fishes of the Indo-West Pacific

Zootaxa ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 778 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
KATHRYN A. HALL ◽  
THOMAS H. CRIBB
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Generic Diagnosis ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
West Pacific ◽  
Lizard Island ◽  
The Western Pacific

We describe 2 new species of Affecauda from the intestine of acanthuroid fishes of the Indo-West Pacific.  Affecauda rugosa n. sp. is described from 1 mature specimen in excellent condition and 1 immature fractured specimen from the intestine of the sailfin tang, Zebrasoma veliferum (Acanthuridae), from Noumea, New Caledonia.  Affecauda salacia n. sp. is described from the intestine of the ocellated spinefoot, Siganus corallinus (Siganidae), from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.  Each of these species is made distinct from the type-species, Affecauda annulata Hall & Chambers, 1999, by combinations of the extent of tegumental annulations, conformation of the oesophagus and position of the ovary.  The description of 2 new species of Affecauda necessitates a revision of the generic diagnosis, which is here amended to incorporate the additional species.  A key to species is provided.  The description of further species of Affecauda from waters external to the Great Barrier Reef and from siganid fishes expands the biogeographical range for species of Affecauda, from species of Naso on the Great Barrier Reef, to acanthuroid fishes of the western Pacific.

Gorgocephalus yaaji n. sp. (Digenea: Gorgocephalidae) from the brassy chub Kyphosus vaigiensis (Perciformes: Kyphosidae) off Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef and further records of G . kyphosi

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 1068 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
RODNEY A. BRAY ◽  
THOMAS H. CRIBB
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Ventral Sucker ◽  
Body Length ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Lizard Island ◽  
Kyphosus Vaigiensis ◽  
A New Species

A new species Gorgocephalus yaaji is described in the intestine of Kyphosus vaigiensis from the waters off Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia. It differs from Gorgocephalus kyphosi by its broader body shape, the extension of the vitellarium into the forebody, a relatively longer forebody, cirrus-sac and post-caecal region, and a shorter distance between the ventral sucker and the ovary. It differs from Gorgocephalus manteri in its size, its tandem testes, and the ratios of width, ventral sucker to ovary distance and ovary to testes distance to body-length. Gorgocephalus kyphosi is reported in the pyloric caeca of K. vaigiensis from waters off Moorea, French Polynesia, and Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia. Measurements and an illustration are given of the latter species.

Diploproctodaeum spp. (Digenea, Lepocreadiidae) in Australian and New Caledonian waters including two new species from Tetraodontiformes and new records of related species

2010 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney Bray ◽  
Thomas Cribb ◽  
Jean-Lou Justine
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Convergent Evolution ◽  
New Records ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
The Body ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Lizard Island ◽  
New Hosts ◽  
Lagocephalus Sceleratus

AbstractDiploproctodaeum monstrosum sp. nov. is described from Arothron stellatus and A. mappa from off Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef. It differs from its congeners in having a body-length ventral scoop. Diploproctodaeum triodoni sp. nov. is described from Triodon macropterus off New Caledonia. It is distinguished by the extensive vitelline fields usually reaching to the ventral sucker and the folded scoop margins. Other related species are reported from new hosts or localities and dimensions are supplied for: Diploproctodaeum haustrum from Aluterus monoceros off New Caledonia; Diploproctodaeum arothroni from Arothron hispidus off Lizard Island and Ningaloo Reef, northern Western Australia, A. nigropunctatus off Lizard Island and Arothron manilensis off New Caledonia; Diploproctodaeum macracetabulum from Abalistes stellatus on the Swain Reefs, southern Great Barrier Reef and off New Caledonia; Diploproctodaeum momoaafata from Ostracion cubicus off Lizard Island; Diploproctodaeum rutellum from Platax teira off Heron Island, southern Great Barrier Reef; Diploproctodaeoides longipygum from Abalistes stellatus on the Swain Reefs and off New Caledonia; Diplocreadium tsontso from Balistoides conspicillum off Heron Island; Bianium arabicum from Lagocephalus sceleratus off New Caledonia. Attention is drawn to apparent convergent evolution in the body form of several families of trematodes infecting tetraodontids and especially species of Arothron.

Revision of Egglestonichthys and of Priolepis species possessing a transverse pattern of cheek papillae (Teleostei; Gobiidae), with a discussion of relationships

1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (10) ◽  
pp. 1934-1946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Winterbottom ◽  
Mary Burridge
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
Sister Group ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
Gill Opening ◽  
Transverse Pattern ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
The Western Pacific

We recognize seven species in this group, five of which are described here. Priolepis profunda (Weber) occurs in central Indonesia and western Australia; P. anthioides (Smith) is known only from Zanzibar; P. aithiops n.sp. and P. sticta n.sp. are known only from Flores, Indonesia; P. fallacincta n.sp. occurs fairly widely in the western Pacific from Taiwan to Fiji and the Great Barrier Reef; P. randalli n.sp. is present in the Persian Gulf (and probably the Red Sea); and Priolepis RW sp. 8, to be described by other workers, is known from Japan through to western Australia, the Great Barrier Reef, and New Caledonia. The monotypic Egglestonichthys (known from a single specimen from the South China Sea) exhibits all the defining characteristics of Priolepis, and represents the plesiomorphic sister-group of either Priolepis, if the latter proves to be monophyletic, or of a monophyletic group composed of Priolepis, Trimma, Trimmatom, Paratrimma, and possibly some other genera. The entire clade is defined by two autapomorphies: loss of the cephalic sensory canals and associated pores, and a broad gill opening extending anteroventrally to below at least the vertical limb of the preopercle.

The legacy of Professor John Stanley Gardiner FRS to reef science

2007 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-217
Author(s):  
Barbara E Brown
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Coral Reefs ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Reef Morphology

John Stanley Gardiner is best known for his extensive expeditions into the Indian Ocean to study the flora and fauna of coral reefs and islands in the early 1900s. His contributions to reef origins and reef morphology have been discussed by others but little has been made of his zoological studies, which were well ahead of their time, and his significant influence on the Great Barrier Reef Expedition of 1928–29, which proved to be a major breakthrough in the study of coral reefs. This paper reviews his important legacy in this regard.

scholarly journals An Anomalous Phylogenetic Position for Deraiotrema platacis Machida, 1982 (Lepocreadiidae) from Platax pinnatus on the Great Barrier Reef

Diversity ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney A. Bray ◽  
Scott C. Cutmore ◽  
Thomas H. Cribb
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
Phylogenetic Position ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Rdna Sequences ◽  
As Species ◽  
Lizard Island ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
28S Rdna Sequences ◽  
Prospect Of Success

The monotypic genus Deraiotrema Machida, 1982 has only been reported once, from the orbicular batfish Platax orbicularis (Forsskål) in the waters around Palau in Micronesia (Machida, 1982). It has a body-shape similar to other lepocreadiids from batfishes, such as species of Bianium Stunkard, 1930 and Diploproctodaeum La Rue, 1926, but differs in having multiple testes in ventral and dorsal layers. Here we report Deraiotrema platacis Machida, 1982 for just the second time, infecting the dusky batfish Platax pinnatus (Linnaeus) from the waters off Lizard Island on the northern Great Barrier Reef. We present a molecular phylogenetic analysis of the position of this genus inferred from 28S rDNA sequences. Surprisingly, we find the species most closely related to Echeneidocoelium indicum despite the infection of completely unrelated hosts and the presence of two characters (lateral fold in the forebody and multiple testes) that are found elsewhere in the Lepocreadiidae. We conclude that homoplasy within the Lepocreadiidae is extensive and that morphology-based prediction of relationships has little prospect of success.

Revision of Telotrema Ozaki, 1933 (Digenea: Gyliauchenidae Fukui, 1929), including the description of a new species from an acanthurid fish from the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 1071 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
KATHRYN A. HALL ◽  
THOMAS H. CRIBB
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Seminal Vesicle ◽  
Generic Diagnosis ◽  
Western Pacific Ocean ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Lizard Island ◽  
One New Species ◽  
The Western Pacific ◽  
A New Species

We describe one new species of Telotrema Ozaki, 1933 from the intestine of an acanthurid fish of the Great Barrier Reef. Telotrema brevicaudatum n. sp. is described from 2 mature specimens from the yellowfin surgeonfish, Acanthurus xanthopterus Valenciennes, 1835 (Acanthuridae), from waters off Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia. This species is distinguished from the typespecies, Telotrema caudatum Ozaki, 1933, by the smaller excretory papilla, the massive pars prostatica, the unipartite, globular seminal vesicle, and the intertesticular position of the ovary. The proposal of a new species of Telotrema necessitates re-examination of the generic diagnosis, and the genus is here redefined in light of the morphology of T. brevicaudatum. Telotrema is distinguished from Gyliauchen Nicoll, 1915 by the possession of a ventral sucker which is larger than the pharynx, a straight or sigmoid oesophagus, an extensive and dense vitellarium, and a distinct excretory papilla. We here recognise 3 species and distinguish them in a key. The biogeographical range for species of Telotrema now includes acanthurid and pomacentrid fishes of the western Pacific Ocean.

scholarly journals Wandinidae

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2260 (1) ◽  
pp. 927-930
Author(s):  
J. K. LOWRY ◽  
H. E. STODDART
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Living Coral ◽  
Tree Island ◽  
Lizard Island

One species of wandinid amphipod is reported from the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. Wandin griffini Lowry & Stoddart is known from Lizard Island, One Tree Island and reefs on the Outer Barrier, living among rubble usually at the base of living coral. The species is rare in this habitat.

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