WoRMS taxon details
Saccocoelioides beauforti (Hunter & Thomas, 1961) Overstreet, 1971
765739 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:765739)
accepted
Species
Culuwiya beauforti (Hunter & Thomas, 1961) Overstreet & Curran, 2005 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Saccocoelium beauforti Hunter & Thomas, 1961 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh
(of Saccocoelium beauforti Hunter & Thomas, 1961) Hunter, W. S.; Thomas, L. J. (1961). A new species of Saccocoelium (Trematoda, Haploporidae) from Beaufort, N. C. <em>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society.</em> 80:176–179. [details]
Taxonomic remark The present morphological data from the museum lot, the 2 new specimens from Georgia, and their congruence with data from...
Taxonomic remark The present morphological data from the museum lot, the 2 new specimens from Georgia, and their congruence with data from the original description collectively provide a larger morphological data set that serves to divide S. beauforti sensu stricto from “S. beauforti” of Overstreet (1971). [details]
WoRMS (2025). Saccocoelioides beauforti (Hunter & Thomas, 1961) Overstreet, 1971. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=765739 on 2025-11-14
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Saccocoelium beauforti Hunter & Thomas, 1961) Hunter, W. S.; Thomas, L. J. (1961). A new species of Saccocoelium (Trematoda, Haploporidae) from Beaufort, N. C. <em>Transactions of the American Microscopical Society.</em> 80:176–179. [details]
new combination reference Overstreet, R. M. (1971). Some adult digenetic trematodes in striped mullet from the Northern Gulf of Mexico. <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 57 (5): 967–974., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3277846
page(s): 970 [details]
new combination reference Overstreet, R. M. (1971). Some adult digenetic trematodes in striped mullet from the Northern Gulf of Mexico. <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 57 (5): 967–974., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3277846
page(s): 970 [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Curran, S. S.; Pulis, E. E.; Andres, M. J.; Overstreet, R. M. (2018). Two new species of Saccocoelioides (Digenea: Haploporidae) with phylogenetic analysis of the family, Including species of Saccocoelioides from North, Middle, and South America. <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 104 (3): 221-239., available online at https://doi.org/10.1645/17-189
note: Saccocoelioides beauforti (sensu strcito). [details]
redescription Curran, S. S.; Bullard, S. A. (2025). A Quarter Century of Sampling Two Ocean Basins to Disambiguate the Identity of a Mullet Parasite, Saccocoelioides beauforti (Digenea: Haploporidae). <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 111(4)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1645/25-22
page(s): 442 [details]
redescription Overstreet, R. M. (1971). Some adult digenetic trematodes in striped mullet from the Northern Gulf of Mexico. <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 57 (5): 967–974., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3277846
page(s): 970 [details]
note: Saccocoelioides beauforti (sensu strcito). [details]
redescription Curran, S. S.; Bullard, S. A. (2025). A Quarter Century of Sampling Two Ocean Basins to Disambiguate the Identity of a Mullet Parasite, Saccocoelioides beauforti (Digenea: Haploporidae). <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 111(4)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1645/25-22
page(s): 442 [details]
redescription Overstreet, R. M. (1971). Some adult digenetic trematodes in striped mullet from the Northern Gulf of Mexico. <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 57 (5): 967–974., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3277846
page(s): 970 [details]
Other
additional source
Andrade-Gómez, L.; Sereno-Uribe, A. L.; García-Varela, M. (2019). Description of a new species and understanding the genetic diversity of Saccocoelioides Szidat, 1954 (Haploporidae) in Middle America using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. <em>Parasitology International.</em> 71: 87-98., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parint.2019.04.005 [details]
additional source Skinner, R.H. (1975). Parasites of the striped mullet, Mugil cephalus, from Biscayne Bay, Florida, with descriptions of a new genus and three new species of Trematodes. Bulletin of Marine Science 25(3):318-345, figs. 1-9, tabs. 1-5. (vii-1975)
page(s): 329 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Skinner, R.H. (1975). Parasites of the striped mullet, Mugil cephalus, from Biscayne Bay, Florida, with descriptions of a new genus and three new species of Trematodes. Bulletin of Marine Science 25(3):318-345, figs. 1-9, tabs. 1-5. (vii-1975)
page(s): 329 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark The present morphological data from the museum lot, the 2 new specimens from Georgia, and their congruence with data from the original description collectively provide a larger morphological data set that serves to divide S. beauforti sensu stricto from “S. beauforti” of Overstreet (1971). [details]
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Saccocoelioides beauforti)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Saccocoelium beauforti Hunter & Thomas, 1961)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Culuwiya beauforti (Hunter & Thomas, 1961) Overstreet & Curran, 2005)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (1 record)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (Holotype USNM 1339880) (from synonym Saccocoelium beauforti Hunter & Thomas, 1961)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Saccocoelium beauforti Hunter & Thomas, 1961)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Culuwiya beauforti (Hunter & Thomas, 1961) Overstreet & Curran, 2005)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (1 record)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (Holotype USNM 1339880) (from synonym Saccocoelium beauforti Hunter & Thomas, 1961)
