WoRMS taxon details

Prodistomum waltairense (Madhavi, 1972) Bray & Gibson, 1990

744354  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:744354)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Platyhelminthes (Phylum)
  4. Rhabditophora (Subphylum)
  5. Neodermata (Superclass)
  6. Trematoda (Class)
  7. Digenea (Subclass)
  8. Plagiorchiida (Order)
  9. Lepocreadiata (Suborder)
  10. Lepocreadioidea (Superfamily)
  11. Lepocreadiidae (Family)
  12. Prodistomum (Genus)
  13. Prodistomum waltairense (Species)
accepted
Species
Hamacreadium karachiense Bilqees & Masood, 1975 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Hamacreadium karachiensis Bilqees & Masood, 1975 · unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet
Opechona waltairensis Madhavi, 1972 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine
(of Opechona waltairensis Madhavi, 1972) Madhavi, R. (1972). Digenetic trematodes from marine fishes of Waltair coast Bay of Bengal. 1 family Lepocreadiidae. <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 58(2): 217-225.
page(s): 219 [details] 
Type locality contained in Eastern India  
type locality contained in Eastern India [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
WoRMS (2025). Prodistomum waltairense (Madhavi, 1972) Bray & Gibson, 1990. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=744354 on 2025-05-22
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Nomenclature

original description (of Opechona waltairensis Madhavi, 1972) Madhavi, R. (1972). Digenetic trematodes from marine fishes of Waltair coast Bay of Bengal. 1 family Lepocreadiidae. <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 58(2): 217-225.
page(s): 219 [details] 

original description (of Hamacreadium karachiense Bilqees & Masood, 1975) Bilqees, F. M., Masood, S. (1975). Two new trematode species of the genus Hamacreadium Linton, 1910 (Opecoelidae: Plagioporinae) from the Indian mackerel Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuv.) off the Karachi coast. <em>Norwegian Journal of Zoology.</em> 23, 135–139.
page(s): 137 [details] 

original description (of Hamacreadium rastrellii Bilqees & Masood, 1975) Bilqees, F. M., Masood, S. (1975). Two new trematode species of the genus Hamacreadium Linton, 1910 (Opecoelidae: Plagioporinae) from the Indian mackerel Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuv.) off the Karachi coast. <em>Norwegian Journal of Zoology.</em> 23, 135–139.
page(s): 135 [details] 

new combination reference Bray, R. A., Gibson, D. I. (1990). The Lepocreadiidae (Digenea) of fishes of the north-east Atlantic: review of the genera Opechona Looss, 1907 and Prodistomum Linton, 1910. <em>Systematic Parasitology.</em> 15: 159-202.
page(s): 186 [details] 

Taxonomy

redescription Madhavi, R., Bray, R. A. (2018). <em>Digenetic Trematodes of Indian Marine Fishes.</em> Springer, Dordrecht, 693 pp.
page(s): 344 [details] 

Other

additional source Madhavi, R. & R.T. Lakshmi. (2011). Metazoan parasites of the Indian mackerel, Rastrelliger kanagurta (Scombridae) of Visakhapatnam coast, Bay of Bengal. <em>Journal of Parasitic Diseases.</em> 35(1):66-74.
page(s): 69 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Ghosh, A.; Sreeraj, C. R. (2023). Fauna of India Checklist: Platyhelminthes. <em>Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata.</em> 49 pp., available online at https://doi.org/10.26515/fauna/1/2023/platyhelminthes [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (Holotype USNM 1367805) (from synonym Opechona waltairensis Madhavi, 1972)

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