WoRMS taxon details
Cricocephalus Looss, 1899
725411 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:725411)
accepted
Genus
Cricocephalus delitescens Looss, 1899 accepted as Cricocephalus albus (Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1822) Looss, 1899 (type by original designation)
Neoadenogaster Mehrotra, 1973 · unaccepted (synonym)
Neocricocephalus Gupta, 1962 · unaccepted (synonym)
- Species Cricocephalus albus (Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1822) Looss, 1899
- Species Cricocephalus americanus Vigueras, 1955
- Species Cricocephalus glandularis (Mehrotra, 1973)
- Species Cricocephalus indicus Chattopadhyaya, 1972
- Species Cricocephalus megastomus Looss, 1902
- Species Cricocephalus resectus Looss, 1902
- Species Cricocephalus ruber (Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1822) Looss, 1899
- Species Cricocephalus vitallani (Gupta, 1962) Gomez-Puerta, Bachmann, Quiñones, Quispe, Torres & Macalupu, 2017
- Species Cricocephalus delitescens Looss, 1899 accepted as Cricocephalus albus (Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1822) Looss, 1899 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Cricocephalus koidzumii Kobayashi, 1915 accepted as Cricocephalus albus (Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1822) Looss, 1899 (synonym)
- Species Cricocephalus megastomum Looss, 1902 accepted as Cricocephalus megastomus Looss, 1902 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
marine
masculine
Looss, A. (1899). Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Trematoden-Fauna Aegyptens, zugleich Versuch einer natürlichen Gliederung des Genus Distomum Retzius. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher.</em> 12: 521-784., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.2037
page(s): 666 [details]
page(s): 666 [details]
Type locality contained in Gulf of Mannar
type locality contained in Gulf of Mannar [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
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Nomenclature
original description
Looss, A. (1899). Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Trematoden-Fauna Aegyptens, zugleich Versuch einer natürlichen Gliederung des Genus Distomum Retzius. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher.</em> 12: 521-784., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.2037
page(s): 666 [details]
original description (of Neoadenogaster Mehrotra, 1973) Mehrotra, V. (1973). Digenea in some reptilian hosts in India, part II. <em>Proceedings of the 60th Indian Science Congress.</em> Part IV: 46–47.
page(s): 46 [details]
original description (of Neocricocephalus Gupta, 1962) Gupta, S. P. (1962). On two new trematodes from the intestine of the marine turtle, Chelone mydas, from the Caribbean Sea. <em>Indian Journal of Helminthology.</em> 14: 71–76.
page(s): 73 [details]
page(s): 666 [details]
original description (of Neoadenogaster Mehrotra, 1973) Mehrotra, V. (1973). Digenea in some reptilian hosts in India, part II. <em>Proceedings of the 60th Indian Science Congress.</em> Part IV: 46–47.
page(s): 46 [details]
original description (of Neocricocephalus Gupta, 1962) Gupta, S. P. (1962). On two new trematodes from the intestine of the marine turtle, Chelone mydas, from the Caribbean Sea. <em>Indian Journal of Helminthology.</em> 14: 71–76.
page(s): 73 [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Looss, A. (1902). Über neue und bekannte Trematoden aus Seeschildröten. Nebst Erörterungen zur Systematik un Nomenclatur. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik Okologie und Geographie der Tiere.</em> 16, 411–894.
page(s): 537; note: 'n. sp.' [details]
page(s): 537; note: 'n. sp.' [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Skrjabin, K. I. (1955). Suborder Pronocephalata Skrjabin, 1955. <em>Osnovy Trematodologii.</em> 10, 5–210. (In Russian).
page(s): 33 [details]
identification resource Blair, D. (2005). Family Pronocephalidae Looss, 1899. In: Jones, A., Bray, R. A & Gibson, D. I. (Eds). <em>Keys to the Trematoda, Volume 2.</em> Wallingford: CABI Publishing and the Natural History Museum, pp. 361–380.
page(s): 377 [details]
page(s): 33 [details]
identification resource Blair, D. (2005). Family Pronocephalidae Looss, 1899. In: Jones, A., Bray, R. A & Gibson, D. I. (Eds). <em>Keys to the Trematoda, Volume 2.</em> Wallingford: CABI Publishing and the Natural History Museum, pp. 361–380.
page(s): 377 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
