species: Gnathia grutterae in Lizard Island area: all known taxa (Lizard Island Field Guide)
Gnathia grutterae


©Nico Smit and Lexa Grutter: Adult male Gnathia grutteraefrom Lizard Island

©Nico Smit and Lexa Grutter: Adult female Gnathia grutterae from Lizard Island

©Nico Smit and Lexa Grutter: 3rd stage larva (pranzia) Gnathia grutterae from Lizard Island (microscope photo)
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Malacostraca
Order Isopoda
Family Gnathiidae
Genus Gnathia
Species Gnathia grutterae

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Distinguishing features still need to be specified.

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  • Size data has not been obtained.

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Distribution


©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution

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References

  • Curtis, L.M., A.S. Grutter, N.J. Smit and A.J. Davies (2013). Gnathia aureamaculosa, a likely definitive host of Hemogregarina balistapi and potential vector for Hemogregarina bigemina between fishes of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, International Journal for Parasitology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2012.11.012. LIRS catalog number 1611.
  • Ferreira, M.L., N.J. Smit and A.J Davies (2010). Gnathia grutterae sp. nov. (Crustacea, Isopoda, nathiidae) parasitising representatives of the Balistidae, Labridae and Tetraodontidae from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Zootaxa, 2718: 39-50. LIRS catalog number 1375.
  • Wilson, G.D.F, C.A. Sims and A.S. Grutter (2011). Toward a taxonomy of the Gnathiidae (Isopoda) using juveniles: the external anatomy of Gnathia aureamaculosa zuphea stages using scanning electron microscopy, Journal of Crustacean Biology, 31(3): 509-522. LIRS catalog number 1873.