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Opechona Looss, 1907 
AphiaID: 108577

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Platyhelminthes (Phylum) > Trematoda (Class) > Digenea (Subclass) > Plagiorchiida (Order) > Lepocreadiata (Suborder) > Lepocreadioidea (Superfamily) > Lepocreadiidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Edited by Database Management Team
Rank Genus
Parent Lepocreadiidae Odhner, 1905
Synonymised
taxa
  Neopechona Stunkard, 1969 (synonym)
Pharyngora Lebour, 1908 (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Gibson, D.I. (2001). Digenea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 136-142 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Opechona acanthoris Gaevskaya & Aljoshkina, 1985
Species Opechona alaskensis Ward & Fillingham, 1934
Species Opechona austrobacillaris Bray & Cribb, 1998
Species Opechona bacillaris (Molin, 1859)
Species Opechona cablei (Stunkard, 1980)
Species Opechona chloroscombri Nahhas & Cable, 1964
Species Opechona dongshanensis Wang Puqin, 1993
Species Opechona formiae Oshmarin, 1965
Species Opechona gaevskayae Ahmad, 1991
Species Opechona ghanensis Fischthal, 1970
Species Opechona girellae Yamaguti, 1940
Species Opechona glossoides Wang, 1987
Species Opechona hynnodi Yamaguti, 1938
Species Opechona kahawai Bray & Cribb, 2003
Species Opechona magnibursata Gaevskaya & Kovaleva, 1982
Species Opechona mohsini Ahmad, 1984
Species Opechona occidentalis Montgomery, 1957
Species Opechona olssoni (Yamaguti, 1934)
Species Opechona orientalis (Layman, 1930)
Species Opechona parvasoma Ching, 1960
Species Opechona pharyngodactyla Manter, 1940
Species Opechona polonii (Molin, 1859)
Species Opechona pritchardae Ahmad, 1991
Species Opechona pseudobacillaris Fischthal, 1970
Species Opechona pyriformis (Linton, 1900)
Species Opechona sardinellae Nahhas & Cable, 1964
Species Opechona sebastodis (Yamaguti, 1934)
Species Opechona siddiqi Ahmad, 1984
Species Opechona thapari Ahmad, 1982
Species Opechona travassossi Ahmad, 1985
Species Opechona vinodae Ahmad, 1984

Species Opechona gracilis (Linton, 1910) accepted as Prodistomum gracile Linton, 1910
Species Opechona magnatestis accepted as Neolepidapedon magnatestis (Gaevskaya & Kovaljova, 1986)
Species Opechona menidiae Manter, 1947 accepted as Prodistomum menidiae (Manter, 1947)
Species Opechona retractilis (Lebour, 1908) accepted as Opechona bacillaris (Molin, 1859)
Species Opechona scombri Yamaguti, 1938 accepted as Lepocreadium scombri (Yamaguti, 1938)
Species Opechona xesuri Yamaguti, 1940 accepted as Opechonoides xesuri (Yamaguti, 1940)
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:108577
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gibson, David
2006-09-26 06:56:50Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Opechona Looss, 1907. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=108577 on 2013-05-25
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