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Genus of flukes

Neohelicometra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Opecoelidae
Subfamily: Helicometrinae
Genus: Neohelicometra
Siddiqi & Cable, 1960
Species: N. scorpaenae
Binomial name
Neohelicometra scorpaenae
Siddiqi & Cable, 1960

Neohelicometra is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae. It consists of only one species, Neohelicometra scorpaenae.

Former species

A number of species formerly in Neohelicometra have been synonymised to other genera. They are:

  • Neohelicometra antarcticae (Holloway & Bier, 1968) Sekerak & Arai, 1974, synonymised to Helicometra antarcticae Holloway & Bier, 1968
  • Neohelicometra dalianensis Li, Qiu & Zhang, 1989, synonymised to Helicometra dalianensis (Li, Qiu & Zhang, 1989) Cribb, 2005
  • Neohelicometra insolita (Polyanski, 1955) Sekerak & Arai, 1974, synonymised to Helicometra insolita Polyanski, 1955
  • Neohelicometra pleurogrammi (Baeva, 1968) Sekerak & Arai, 1974, synonymised to Helicometra pleurogrammi (Baeva, 1968)
  • Neohelicometra sebastis Sekerak & Arai, 1974, synonymised to Helicometra sebastis (Sekerak & Arai, 1974) Bray, 1979

References

  1. ^ 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).
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. Bray, R. A. (1979). Digenea in marine fishes from the eastern seaboard of Canada. Journal of Natural History, 13, 399–431.
Taxon identifiers
Neohelicometra
Neohelicometra scorpaenae


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