Publications

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.	we explored the distribution of cardicola chaetodontis in chaetodontid fishes from the great barrier reef. we found just four infections of adult worms in 238 individuals of 26 chaetodontid species. by contrast, eggs were present in hearts of 75 fishes (31·5%) and 19 of 26 chaetodontid species (all chaetodon species). in 10 cases eggs contained moving miracidia; all the others were dead and degenerating. eggs were sought in the gills of 51 individual fish. there were 17 cases of eggs being prese ...	2013	23734853
cardicola beveridgei n. sp. (digenea: aporocotylidae) from the mangrove jack, lutjanus argentimaculatus (perciformes: lutjanidae), and c. bullardi n. sp. from the australian spotted mackerel, scomberomorus munroi (perciformes: scombridae), from the northern great barrier reef.	cardicola short, 1953 is a genus of the aporocotylidae odhner, 1912 (digenea), with 25 currently recognised species described from 32 species of perciformes and mugiliformes fishes around the world, including eight species from the great barrier reef. here, we describe two new species from this region, namely cardicola beveridgei n. sp. from the ventricle and atrium of the mangrove jack, lutjanus argentimaculatus (forsskål) (perciformes: lutjanidae), and cardicola bullardi n. sp. from the ventri ...	2014	24980892