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WoRMS taxon details

Mesocoelium Odhner, 1910

AphiaID

1323032 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1323032)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Distoma sociale Lühe, 1901 accepted as Mesocoelium sociale (Lühe, 1901) Odhner, 1910 (type by subsequent designation)

Type taxon of

Mesocoeliidae Faust, 1924

Parent

Mesocoeliidae Faust, 1924

Direct children (2)

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Environment

marine, fresh, terrestrial

Grammatical gender

neuter

Original description

Odhner, T. (1910). Nordostafrikanische Trematoden, grösstenteils vom Weissen Nil (von der schweidischen zoologischen Expedition gesammelt). Results Swedish Zool. Exped. Egypt and White Nile 1901, (Jägerskiöld). 23A: 1–170.
page(s): 8, footnote [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Mesocoelium Odhner, 1910. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1323032 on 2025-05-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2019-01-28 08:48:55Z

created

Bray, Rod

2019-07-13 15:43:45Z

changed

Gibson, David

2021-02-26 16:31:17Z

changed

Gibson, David

2021-02-27 10:59:50Z

changed

Bray, Rod

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Odhner, T. (1910). Nordostafrikanische Trematoden, grösstenteils vom Weissen Nil (von der schweidischen zoologischen Expedition gesammelt). Results Swedish Zool. Exped. Egypt and White Nile 1901, (Jägerskiöld). 23A: 1–170.
page(s): 8, footnote [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Dronen, N. O.; Calhoun, D. M.; Simcik, S. R. (2012). Mesocoelium Odhner, 1901 (Digenea: Mesocoelidae) revisited; a revision of the family and re-evaluation of species composition in the genus. Zootaxa. 3387: 1–96. [details]

taxonomy source Tsuchida, K.; Urabe, M.; Nishikawa, K.; Hoso, M.; Wu, SP. (2024). Addressing the taxonomic confusion of Mesocoelium Odhner, 1910 (Trematoda: Plagiorchioidea: Mesocoeliidae) in Japanese urodelan and anuran amphibians. Systematic Parasitology. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-023-10126-z [details]

redescription Dronen, N. O.; Calhoun, D. M.; Simcik, S. R. (2012). Mesocoelium Odhner, 1901 (Digenea: Mesocoelidae) revisited; a revision of the family and re-evaluation of species composition in the genus. Zootaxa. 3387: 1–96. [details]

Identification resource

identification resource Skrjabin, K. I., Morozov, F. N. (1959). Family Mesocoeliidae Dollfus, 1950. Osnovy Trematodologii. 16: 634–703. (In Russian).
page(s): 636 [details]

identification resource Dronen, N. O.; Calhoun, D. M.; Simcik, S. R. (2012). Mesocoelium Odhner, 1901 (Digenea: Mesocoelidae) revisited; a revision of the family and re-evaluation of species composition in the genus. Zootaxa. 3387: 1–96. [details]

identification resource Pojmańska, T. (2008). Family Mesocoeliidae Dollfus, 1929. In: Bray, R. A.; Gibson, D. I.; Jones, A. (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 3. Wallingford, CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 261–263.
page(s): 262 [details]

Other

additional source Imkongwapang, R.; Jyrwa, D. B.; Lal, P.; Tandon, V. (2012). A checklist of helminth parasite fauna in anuran Amphibia (frogs) of Nagaland, Northeast India. Journal of Parasitic Diseases. 38(1): 85-100., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12639-012-0180-6 [details]