| dietary variations within a family of ambush predators (platycephalidae) occupying different habitats and environments in the same geographical region. | this study has determined the extents and basis for variations in the composition of the prey ingested by the abundant species of a family highly adapted for ambush predation, i.e. platycephalidae, in a region (south-western australia) where that family is found in different habitats and environments. dietary data were thus collected for leviprora inops and platycephalus laevigatus from seagrass in marine embayments and for platycephalus westraliae from over sand in an estuary. these were then c ... | 2015 | 25683280 |
| molecular characterization of anisakid nematode larvae from 13 species of fish from western australia. | this study characterized anisakid nematodes in estuarine and near-shore species of fish in southern western australia. a total of 108 fish representing 13 species were examined for anisakid larvae. for the molecular characterization of anisakid larvae (n=218), we used pcr-coupled mutation scanning-sequencing-phylogenetic analyses of sequence variation in the internal transcribed spacers of nuclear ribosomal dna. with the exception of sillaginoides punctatus and sillago schomburgkii, all the fish ... | 2012 | 23353682 |
| helicometra odhner, 1902 (digenea: opecoelidae) in australian waters: problems of species identification and a description of h. sprenti n. sp. | helicometra odhner, 1902 is reported from temperate australian marine teleosts in which it appears to be rare. of 285 species of fishes from 84 families examined, only 10 species from 9 families were infected. one infection, that in platycephalus speculator caught from off the coast of western australia, is highly distinctive and the name helicometra sprenti n. sp. is proposed for this species. the other infections were from members of the antennariidae, apogonidae, kyphosidae, labridae, paralic ... | 2006 | 16699924 |