WoRMS taxon details
Genitocotyle necromnemos Zedam, Bouguerche & Tazerouti, 2025
1822632 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1822632)
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marine
Zedam, F.-Z.; Bouguerche, C.; Tazerouti, F. (2025). “A Tale Preserved in a Museum”: The Long-Awaited Discovery of Genitocotyle necromnemos n. sp. (Trematoda: Opecoelidae) from the Cardinal Fish Apogon imberbis (Linnaeus) in the Western Mediterranean. <em>Acta Parasitologica.</em> 70(4)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11686-025-01067-2 [details] Available for editors 
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Type locality contained in Algerian part of the Mediterranean Sea -...
type locality contained in Algerian part of the Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin [details]
WoRMS (2026). Genitocotyle necromnemos Zedam, Bouguerche & Tazerouti, 2025. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1822632 on 2026-06-07
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Zedam, F.-Z.; Bouguerche, C.; Tazerouti, F. (2025). “A Tale Preserved in a Museum”: The Long-Awaited Discovery of Genitocotyle necromnemos n. sp. (Trematoda: Opecoelidae) from the Cardinal Fish Apogon imberbis (Linnaeus) in the Western Mediterranean. <em>Acta Parasitologica.</em> 70(4)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11686-025-01067-2 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Synonymy Two specimens, previously annotated as Genitocotyle sp. from Apogon imberbis off Madeira, from the Natural History Museum. London [Bartoli P, Gibson D, Riutort J-J (1994) Genitocotyle mediterranea n. sp (Digenea, Opecoelidae) from Symphodus ocellatus (Teleostei, Labridae) in the western Mediterranean. Parasite 1:365–370.] [details]
