WoRMS taxon details
Octangium Looss, 1902
725391 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:725391)
accepted
Genus
Octangium sagitta (Looss, 1899) Looss, 1902 (type by original designation)
- Species Octangium hyphalum Blair, 1987
- Species Octangium sagitta (Looss, 1899) Looss, 1902
- Species Octangium elongatum Chattopadhyaya, 1972 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Octangium microrchis Chattopadhyaya, 1972 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Octangium hasta Looss, 1902 accepted as Octangium sagitta (Looss, 1899) Looss, 1902 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Octangium takanoi Kobayashi, 1921 accepted as Octangium sagitta (Looss, 1899) Looss, 1902 (Tentative synonymy by Blair (1987))
- Species Octangium travassosi (Ruiz, 1943) Yamaguti, 1958 accepted as Neoctangium travassosi Ruiz, 1943 (synonym)
marine
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., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.17153
page(s): 684 [details]
page(s): 684 [details]
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Nomenclature
original description
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., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.17153
page(s): 684 [details]
page(s): 684 [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Blair, D. (1987). A revision of the subfamily Octangiinae (Platyhelminthes, Digenea, Microscaphidiidae) parasitic in marine turtles (Reptilia, Chelonia). <em>Australian Journal of Zoology.</em> 35 (1): 75–92., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/zo9870075
page(s): 78 [details]
page(s): 78 [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Blair, D. (2005). Family Microscaphidiidae Looss, 1900. 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.193–212., available online at https://doi.org/10.1079/9780851995878.0193
page(s): 203 [details]
identification resource Skrjabin, K. I. (1949). Suborder Paramphistomatata (Szidat, 1936) Skrjabin et Schulz, 1937. <em>Osnovy Trematodologii.</em> 3: 5–619. (In Russian).
page(s): 546 [details]
page(s): 203 [details]
identification resource Skrjabin, K. I. (1949). Suborder Paramphistomatata (Szidat, 1936) Skrjabin et Schulz, 1937. <em>Osnovy Trematodologii.</em> 3: 5–619. (In Russian).
page(s): 546 [details]
