Ian David Whittington

Ian David Whittington, Australian parasitologist, mainly specialist of Monogenea

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Whittington, I.D. & Barton, D.P. 1990. A new genus of monogenean parasites (Capsalidae: Benedeniinae) from stingrays (Rajiformes: Dasyatidae) with a description of a new species from the long-tailed stingray Himantura uarnak Forsskål from Queensland, Australia. Journal of Natural History 24: 327–340. DOI: 10.1080/00222939000770241 Reference page.

Pichelin, S., Whittington, I. & Pearson, J. 1991. Concinnocotyla (Monogenea: Polystomatidae), a new genus for the polystome from the Australian lungfish Neoceratodus forsteri. Systematic Parasitology 18(2): 81–93. DOI: 10.1007/bf00017660 Reference page.

Chisholm, L.A. & Whittington, I.D. 2001. Euzetia occultum n. g., n. sp. (Euzetiinae n. subf.), a monocotylid monogenean from the gills of Rhinoptera neglecta (Rhinopteridae) from Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. Systematic Parasitology 48(3): 179–183. DOI: 10.1023/a:1006488701833 Reference page.
Ernst, I., Jones, M.K. & Whittington, I.D. 2001. A new genus of viviparous gyrodactylid (Monogenea) from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia with descriptions of seven new species. Journal of Natural History 35(3): 313–340. DOI: 10.1080/002229301300009568 Reference page.

Glennon, V., Chisholm, L.A., & Whittington, I.D. 2005. Branchotenthes octohamatus sp. n. (Monogenea: Hexabothriidae) from the gills of the southern fiddler ray, Trygonorrhina fasciata (Rhinobatidae) in South Australia: description of adult and larva. Folia Parasitologica 52: 223–230. DOI: 10.14411/fp.2005.030, PDF Reference page.
Kearn, G.C. & Whittington, I.D. 2005. Neoentobdella gen. nov. for species of Entobdella Blainville in Lamarck, 1818 (Monogenea, Capsalidae, Entobdellinae) from stingray hosts, with descriptions of two new species. Acta Parasitologica 50(1): 32–48. PDF Reference page.

Kearn, G.C., Whittington, I.D. & Evans-Gowing, R. 2007. A revision of Entobdella Blainville in Lamarck, 1818, with special emphasis on the nominal type species Entobdella hippoglossi Mueller, 1776 Blainville, 1818 Monogenea Capsalidae; Entobdellinae from teleost flatfishes, with descriptions of three new species and a new genus. Zootaxa 1659: 1–54. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1659.1.1 Reference page.

Barton, D.P., Beaufrère, C., Justine, J.-L. & Whittington, I. D. 2009. Polyopisthocotylean monogeneans from carangid fishes off Queensland, Australia and New Caledonia, with a description of Heteromicrocotyloides megaspinosus sp. nov. Acta Parasitologica 54: 205-217. DOI: 10.2478/s11686-009-0038-y Reference page.
Chisholm, L.A. & Whittington, I.D. 2009. Malalophus jensenae n. g., n. sp. (Monogenea: Monocotylidae) from the gills of Aetomylaeus vespertilio (Myliobatidae) off northern Australia. Systematic Parasitology 73(2): 81–86. DOI: 10.1007/s11230-009-9176-8 Reference page.
Whittington, I.D. & Kearn, G.C. 2009. Two new species of Neoentobdella (Monogenea: Capsalidae: Entobdellinae) from the skin of Australian stingrays (Dasyatidae). Folia Parasitologica 56(1): 29–35. DOI: 10.14411/fp.2009.005, PDF Reference page.

Justine, J.-L., Beveridge, I., Boxshall, G.A., Bray, R.A., Moravec, F. & Whittington I.D. 2010. An annotated list of fish parasites (Copepoda, Monogenea, Digenea, Cestoda and Nematoda) collected from Emperors and Emperor Bream (Lethrinidae) in New Caledonia further highlights parasite biodiversity estimates on coral reef fish. Zootaxa 2691: 1–40. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2691.1.1, PDF Reference page.
Kearn, G.C., Whittington, I.D. & Evans-Gowing, R. 2010. A new genus and new species of microbothriid monogenean (Platyhelminthes) with a functionally enigmatic reproductive system, parasitic on the skin and mouth lining of the largetooth sawfish, Pristis microdon in Australia. Acta Parasitologica 55(2): 115–122. DOI: 10.2478/s11686-010-0019-1 Reference page.