Neohelicometra
| Neohelicometra | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Trematoda |
| Order: | Plagiorchiida |
| Family: | Opecoelidae |
| Subfamily: | Helicometrinae |
| Genus: | Neohelicometra Siddiqi & Cable, 1960[1] |
| Species: | N. scorpaenae
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| Binomial name | |
| Neohelicometra scorpaenae Siddiqi & Cable, 1960
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Neohelicometra is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae. It consists of only one species, Neohelicometra scorpaenae.[1]
Former species
[edit]A number of species formerly in Neohelicometra have been synonymised to other genera. They are:
- Neohelicometra antarcticae (Holloway & Bier, 1968) Sekerak & Arai, 1974,[2][3] synonymised to Helicometra antarcticae Holloway & Bier, 1968[2]
- Neohelicometra dalianensis Li, Qiu & Zhang, 1989,[4] synonymised to Helicometra dalianensis (Li, Qiu & Zhang, 1989) Cribb, 2005[4][5]
- Neohelicometra insolita (Polyanski, 1955) Sekerak & Arai, 1974,[6][3] synonymised to Helicometra insolita Polyanski, 1955[6]
- Neohelicometra pleurogrammi (Baeva, 1968) Sekerak & Arai, 1974,[7][3] synonymised to Helicometra pleurogrammi (Baeva, 1968)[7]
- Neohelicometra sebastis Sekerak & Arai, 1974,[3] synonymised to Helicometra sebastis (Sekerak & Arai, 1974) Bray, 1979[3][8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Siddiqi, A. H. & Cable, R. M. (1960). Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of Puerto Rico. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, 17(3).
- ^ a b Holloway, H. L., Jr. & Bier, J. W. (1960). Helicometra antarcticae sp. nov. from Antarctic coastal fishes. Proceedings of The Helmithological Society of Washington, 35(1), 30–34.
- ^ a b c d e Sekerak, A. D. & Arai, H. P. (1974). A revision of Helicometra Odhner, 1902 and related genera (Trematoda: Opecoelidae), including a description of Neohelicometra sebastis n. sp. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 52(6), 707–738.
- ^ a b Li, Q. K., Qiu, Z. Z. & Zhang, R. S. (1989). Digenetic trematodes of fishes from the Bo-Hai Sea, China. 6. (Trematoda: Opecoelidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 14(1), 2–16.
- ^ Cribb, T. H. (2005). Family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925. In Jones, A., Bray, R. & Gibson, D. (Eds.), Keys to the Trematoda, Volume 2 (pp. 443–531). London: CABI Publishing and the Natural History Museum.
- ^ a b Polyanski, Y. I. (1955). Studies on the parasitology of the fish in the northern seas of the USSR. Parasites of fish of the Barents Sea. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Leningrad, 19, 5–170.
- ^ a b Baeva, O. M. (1968). Helminth fauna of Pleurogrammus azonus in the Sea of Japan. In Skrjabin, K. I. & Mamaev, Y. L. (Eds.), Helminths of animals of the Pacific Ocean (pp. 80–88). Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Nauka.
- ^ Bray, R. A. (1979). Digenea in marine fishes from the eastern seaboard of Canada. Journal of Natural History, 13, 399–431.
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