Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Diplostomida > Suborder Diplostomata > Superfamily Schistosomatoidea > Family Aporocotylidae > Genus Cardicola

Cardicola forsteri Cribb, Daintith & Munday, 2000

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cardicola*	Short, 1953	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Cribb, T. H.; Daintith, M.; Munday, B. (2000). A new blood-fluke, Cardicola forsteri, (Digenea : Sanguinicolidae) of southern blue-fin tuna (Thunnus Maccoyii) in aquaculture. Transactions of The Royal Society of South Australia. 124 2: 117-120.
additional source	Aiken, H.; Hayward, C.; Nowak, B. (2006). An epizootic and its decline of a blood fluke, Cardicola forsteri, in farmed southern bluefin tuna, Thunnus maccoyii. Aquaculture. 254 (1-4): 40–45.
additional source	Aiken, H. M.; Hayward, C. J.; Nowak, B. F. (2015). Factors affecting abundance and prevalence of blood fluke, Cardicola forsteri, infection in commercially ranched southern bluefin tuna, Thunnus maccoyii, in Australia. Veterinary Parasitology. 210 (1-2): 106–113.
additional source	Coff, L.; Abrahams, J. L.; Collett, S.; Power, C.; Nowak, B. F.; Kolarich, D.; Bott, N. J.; Ramsland, P. A. (2022). Profiling the glycome of Cardicola forsteri, a blood fluke parasitic to bluefin tuna. International Journal for Parasitology. 52 (1): 1–12.
additional source	Coff, L.; Guy, A. J.; Campbell, B. E.; Nowak, B. F.; Ramsland, P. A.; Bott, N. J. (2022). Draft genome of the bluefin tuna blood fluke, Cardicola forsteri. PLOS ONE. 17(10): e0276287.
additional source	Power, C.; Webber, C.; Rough, K.; Staunton, R.; Nowak, B. F.; Bott, N. J. (2019). The effect of different treatment strategies on Cardicola spp. (Trematoda: Aporocotylidae) infection in ranched Southern Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) from Port Lincoln, South Australia. Aquaculture. 513: 734401.
additional source	Neumann, L.; Bridle, A.; Leef, M.; Nowak, B. (2018). Annual variability of infection with Cardicola forsteri and Cardicola orientalis in ranched and wild southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii). Aquaculture. 487: 1–6.
additional source	Aiken, H. M., Bott, N. J., Mladineo, I., Montero, F. E., Nowak, B. F., Hayward, C. J. (2007). Molecular evidence for cosmopolitan distribution of platyhelminth parasites of tunas (Thunnus spp.). Fish and Fisheries. 8 (3),: 167–180.
additional source	Norte dos Santos, C.; Leef, M.; Jones, B.; Bott, N.; Giblot-Ducray, D.; Nowak, B. (2012). Distribution of Cardicola forsteri eggs in the gills of southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) (Castelnau, 1872). Aquaculture. 344–349: 54–57.
additional source	Colquitt, S. E.; Munday, B. L.; Daintith, M. (2001). Pathological findings in southern bluefin tuna, Thunnus maccoyii (Castelnau), infected with Cardicola forsteri (Cribb, Daintith & Munday, 2000) (Digenea: Sanguinicolidae), a blood fluke. Journal of Fish Diseases. 24 (4): 225–229.
additional source	Polinski, M.; Hamilton, D. B.; Nowak, B.; Bridle, A. (2013). SYBR, TaqMan, or both: Highly sensitive, non-invasive detection of Cardicola blood fluke species in Southern Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus maccoyii). Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 191 (1): 7–15.
additional source	Bullard, S. A.; Goldstein, R. J.; Goodwin, R. H.; Overstreet, R. M. (2004). Cardicola forsteri (Digenea: Sanguinicolidae) from the heart of a Northern Bluefin Tuna, Thunnus thynnus (Scombridae), in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Comparative Parasitology. 71 (2): 245–246.
additional source	Widdicombe, M.; Power, C.; Van Gelderen, R.; Nowak, B. F.; Bott, N. J. (2020). Relationship between Southern Bluefin Tuna, Thunnus maccoyii, melanomacrophage centres and Cardicola spp. (Trematoda: Aporocotylidae) infection. Fish & Shellfish Immunology. 106: 859–865.
additional source	Forte-Gil, D.; Holzer, A. S.; Pecková, H.; Bartošová-Sojková, P.; Peñalver, J.; Dolores, E. M.; Muñoz, P. (2016). Molecular and morphological identification of Cardicola (Trematoda: Aporocotylidae) eggs in hatchery-reared and migratory Atlantic bluefin tuna ( Thunnus thynnus L.). Aquaculture. 450: 58–66.
additional source	Radujkovic, B.; Sundic, D. (2014). Parasitic flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea, Digenea, Cestoda) of fishes from the Adriatic Sea. Natura Montenegrina. 13 (1):7–280.
additional source	Warren, M. B.; Bakenhaster, M. D.; Dutton, H. R.; Ksepka, S. P.; Bullard, S. A. (2021). Redescription of the Type Species of Cardicola Short, 1953 (Digenea: Aporocotylidae) and Description of a New Congener Infecting Yellowedge Grouper, Hyporthodus flavolimbatus (Perciformes: Serranidae), from the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Parasitology. 107(1).
redescription	Palacios-Abella, J. F.; Rodríguez-Llanos, J.; Mele, S.; Montero, F. E. (2015). Morphological characterisation and identification of four species of Cardicola Short, 1953 (Trematoda: Aporocotylidae) infecting the Atlantic bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus (L.) in the Mediterranean Sea. Systematic Parasitology. 91 (2): 101–117.
redescription	Shirakashi, S, Tsunemoto, K., Webber, C., Rough, K., Ellis, D., Ogawa, K. (2013). Two species of Cardicola (Trematoda: Aporocotylidae) found in Southern Bluefin Tuna Thunnus maccoyii ranched in South Australia. Fish Pathology. 48 (1): 1–4.
redescription	Shirakashi, S., Tani, K., Ishimaru, K., Shin, S. P., Honryo, T., Uchida, H. & Ogawa, K. (2016). Discovery of intermediate hosts for two species of blood flukes Cardicola orientalis and Cardicola forsteri (Trematoda: Aporocotylidae) infecting Pacific bluefin tuna in Japan. Parasitology International. 65(2): 128-136.