Transversotrema borboleta is a species of parasitic flatworms found in chaetodontids and lutjanines on Heron Island and Lizard Island. It might be in fact a species complex.[1]
| Transversotrema borboleta | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Trematoda |
| Order: | Plagiorchiida |
| Family: | Transversotrematidae |
| Genus: | Transversotrema |
| Species: | T. borboleta
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| Binomial name | |
| Transversotrema borboleta Hunter & Cribb, 2012
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References
edit- ^ Hunter, Janet A., and Thomas H. Cribb. "A cryptic complex of species related to Transversotrema licinum Manter, 1970 from fishes of the Indo-West Pacific, including descriptions of ten new species of Transversotrema Witenberg, 1944 (Digenea: Transversotrematidae)." Zootaxa 3176 (2012): 1-44.
Further reading
edit- Cribb, Thomas H., et al. "Biogeography of tropical Indo-West Pacific parasites: A cryptic species of Transversotrema and evidence for rarity of Transversotrematidae (Trematoda) in French Polynesia." Parasitology international 63.2 (2014): 285–294.
- Bray, Rodney A., and Thomas H. Cribb. "Are cryptic species a problem for parasitological biological tagging for stock identification of aquatic organisms?."Parasitology 142.01 (2015): 125-133.
- Yong, R., et al. "The ghost of parasites past: eggs of the blood fluke Cardicola chaetodontis (Aporocotylidae) trapped in the heart and gills of butterflyfishes (Perciformes: Chaetodontidae) of the Great Barrier Reef." Parasitology 140.09 (2013): 1186–1194.
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