WoRMS taxon details
Maculifer Nicoll, 1915
725442 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:725442)
accepted
Genus
Alloheterolebes Hafeezullah, 1971 · unaccepted (New name for Pseudoheterolebes...)
New name for Pseudoheterolebes Gupta, 1968; synonym
Pseudoheterolebes Gupta, 1969 nec Yamaguti, 1959 · unaccepted (preoccupied; renamed...)
preoccupied; renamed Alloheterolebes by Hafeezullah (1971)
- Species Maculifer dayawanensis Shen & Tong, 1990
- Species Maculifer diodontis Martin, Ribu, Cutmore & Cribb, 2018
- Species Maculifer indicus (Gupta, 1969) Cribb, 2005
- Species Maculifer japonicus Layman, 1931
- Species Maculifer lagocephali (Liu, 1999) Cribb, 2005
- Species Maculifer pacificus Yamaguti, 1938
- Species Maculifer subaequiporus Nicoll, 1915
- Species Maculifer zhoushanensis Shen, 1986
- Species Maculifer aprionis Shen, 1986 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, incertae sedis according to Cribb (2005))
- Species Maculifer chilomycteri Yamaguti, 1959 accepted as Heterolebes chilomycteri (Yamaguti, 1959) Manter & Pritchard, 1962 (Superseded combination)
- Species Maculifer maculosus (Ozaki, 1935) Yamaguti, 1953 accepted as Heterolebes maculosus Ozaki, 1935 (Superseded combination)
- Species Maculifer spiralis Soota, Srivastava & Ghosh, 1970 accepted as Hamacreadium spiralis (Soota, Srivastava & Ghosh, 1970) Madhavi & Bray, 2018 accepted as Hamacreadium spirale (Soota, Srivastava & Ghosh, 1970) Madhavi & Bray, 2018 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Maculifer vitellosus (Bilqees, 1972) Cribb, 2005 accepted as Maculifer indicus (Gupta, 1969) Cribb, 2005 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine
masculine
Nicoll, W. (1915). The trematode parasites of north Queensland. III. Parasites of fishes. <em>Parasitology.</em> 8: 22-41., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182000010398
page(s): 23 [details]
page(s): 23 [details]
Taxonomic remark Our 28S rDNA sequences were found to closely resemble that of Opistholebes amplicoelus Nicoll, 1915 of the subfamily...
Taxonomic remark Our 28S rDNA sequences were found to closely resemble that of Opistholebes amplicoelus Nicoll, 1915 of the subfamily Opistholebetinae Fukui, 1929 (98.70%similarity,MH933875) (Kakui 2022, Martin et al. 2018, 2020), suggesting that Maculifer pacificus belongs to this subfamily. [details]
WoRMS (2026). Maculifer Nicoll, 1915. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=725442 on 2026-02-24
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Nomenclature
original description
Nicoll, W. (1915). The trematode parasites of north Queensland. III. Parasites of fishes. <em>Parasitology.</em> 8: 22-41., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182000010398
page(s): 23 [details]
original description (of Alloheterolebes Hafeezullah, 1971) Hafeezullah, M. (1971). On Some New and Known Digenetic Trematodes from Marine Fishes of India. <em>Journal of Helminthology.</em> 45(01): 73-88., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022149x00006933
page(s): 76 [details]
original description (of Pseudoheterolebes Gupta, 1969 nec Yamaguti, 1959) Gupta, A. N. (1969). Studies on Pseudoheterolebes g.n. (Trematoda: Digenea) from Tetradon viridipunctata (Gunther) from Madras, India with the description of P. indicus sp.n. as its type-species and key to the genera of family Opistholebetidae Fukui, 1929. <em>Acta Parasitologica Polonica.</em> 15(1968): 355-359.
page(s): 358 [details]
page(s): 23 [details]
original description (of Alloheterolebes Hafeezullah, 1971) Hafeezullah, M. (1971). On Some New and Known Digenetic Trematodes from Marine Fishes of India. <em>Journal of Helminthology.</em> 45(01): 73-88., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022149x00006933
page(s): 76 [details]
original description (of Pseudoheterolebes Gupta, 1969 nec Yamaguti, 1959) Gupta, A. N. (1969). Studies on Pseudoheterolebes g.n. (Trematoda: Digenea) from Tetradon viridipunctata (Gunther) from Madras, India with the description of P. indicus sp.n. as its type-species and key to the genera of family Opistholebetidae Fukui, 1929. <em>Acta Parasitologica Polonica.</em> 15(1968): 355-359.
page(s): 358 [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Cribb, T. H. (2005). Family Opistholebetidae Fukui, 1929. In: Jones, A., Bray, R. A. & Gibson, D. I. (Eds). <em>Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 2.</em> Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 533–539., available online at https://doi.org/10.1079/9780851995878.0533
page(s): 537 [details]
identification resource Skrjabin, K. I. (1954). Family Opistholebetidae Fukui, 1929. <em>Osnovy Trematodologii.</em> 9, 5-44. (In Russian).
page(s): 30 [details]
identification resource Martin, S. B.; Ribu, D.; Cutmore, S. C.; Cribb, T. H. (2018). Opistholobetines (Digenea: Opecoelidae) in Australian tetraodontiform fishes. <em>Systematic Parasitology.</em> 95: 743–781., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-018-9826-9 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 537 [details]
identification resource Skrjabin, K. I. (1954). Family Opistholebetidae Fukui, 1929. <em>Osnovy Trematodologii.</em> 9, 5-44. (In Russian).
page(s): 30 [details]
identification resource Martin, S. B.; Ribu, D.; Cutmore, S. C.; Cribb, T. H. (2018). Opistholobetines (Digenea: Opecoelidae) in Australian tetraodontiform fishes. <em>Systematic Parasitology.</em> 95: 743–781., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-018-9826-9 [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Martin, S. B.; Ribu, D.; Cutmore, S. C.; Cribb, T. H. (2018). Opistholobetines (Digenea: Opecoelidae) in Australian tetraodontiform fishes. <em>Systematic Parasitology.</em> 95: 743–781., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-018-9826-9
note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Ozaki, Y. (1937). Studies on the trematode families Gyliauchenidae and Opistholebetidae, with special reference to lymph system. II. <em>Journal of Science of the Hiroshima University.</em> 5, 167–244.
page(s): 230; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details]
note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Ozaki, Y. (1937). Studies on the trematode families Gyliauchenidae and Opistholebetidae, with special reference to lymph system. II. <em>Journal of Science of the Hiroshima University.</em> 5, 167–244.
page(s): 230; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark Our 28S rDNA sequences were found to closely resemble that of Opistholebes amplicoelus Nicoll, 1915 of the subfamily Opistholebetinae Fukui, 1929 (98.70%similarity,MH933875) (Kakui 2022, Martin et al. 2018, 2020), suggesting that Maculifer pacificus belongs to this subfamily. [details]
