Chinese Register of Marine Species - Hexangium Goto & Ozaki, 1929

Chinese
Register of
Marine Species
(ChaRMS)

WoRMS taxon details

Hexangium Goto & Ozaki, 1929

AphiaID

391453 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:391453)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Hexangium sigani Goto & Ozaki, 1929 (type by original designation)

Parent

Microscaphidiidae Looss, 1900

Synonymised names

Arthurloossia Nagaty, 1954 · unaccepted (synonym)

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Species Hexangium brayi Hassanine & Gibson, 2005
Species Hexangium saudii Al-Jahdali, 2013
Species Hexangium sigani Goto & Ozaki, 1929
Species Hexangium affinum Tubangui & Masiluñgan, 1944 accepted as Hexangium sigani Goto & Ozaki, 1929 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Hexangium elongatum Manter, 1963 accepted as Parawardula elongata (Manter, 1963) Jones & Blair, 2005 (synonym)
Species Hexangium leptosomum Machida & Uchida, 1990 accepted as Pseudohexangium leptosomum (Machida & Uchida, 1990) Blair, 2005 (Superceded combination )
Species Hexangium loossi (Nagaty, 1954) Yamaguti, 1958 accepted as Hexangium sigani Goto & Ozaki, 1929 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Hexangium secundum Annereaux, 1947 accepted as Hexangium sigani Goto & Ozaki, 1929 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Hexangium ecsomi Al-Zanbagi & Hassan, 2013 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)

Environment

marine, brackish

Original description

Goto, S.; Ozaki, Y. (1929). Brief notes on new trematodes II. Japanese Journal of Zoology. 2: 369-383.
page(s): 377 [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Hexangium Goto & Ozaki, 1929. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391453 on 2025-05-02

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-04-15 09:48:17Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2013-04-30 07:01:12Z

changed

Boxshall, Geoff

2014-01-20 10:12:56Z

checked

Gibson, David

2019-01-31 14:08:01Z

changed

Bray, Rod

2019-10-16 07:47:51Z

changed

Bray, Rod

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Nomenclature

original description Goto, S.; Ozaki, Y. (1929). Brief notes on new trematodes II. Japanese Journal of Zoology. 2: 369-383.
page(s): 377 [details]

original description (of Arthurloossia Nagaty, 1954) Nagaty, H. F. (1954). Trematodes of fishes from the Red Sea. Part 5. On three new opecoelids and one mesometrid. Journal of Parasitology. 40 (4), 367-371.
page(s): 369 [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Hassanine R.M., Gibson D.I. (2005). Trematodes of Red Sea fishes: Hexangium brayi n. sp. (Angiodictyidae Looss, 1902) and Siphodera aegyptensis n. sp. (Cryptogonimidae Ward, 1917), with a review of their genera. Systematic Parasitology. 215-222.
page(s): 218; note: amended [details]

redescription Ku, C. T., Shen, J.-W. (1965). Studies on some digenetic trematodes from marine fishes in China. Acta Parasitologica Sinica. 2, 355–365 (In Chinese).
page(s): 357 [details]

Identification resource

identification resource Blair, D. (2005). Family Microscaphidiidae Looss, 1900. In: Jones, A., Bray, R. A. & Gibson, D. I., (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda, Volume 2. Wallingford: CABI Publishing and the Natural History Museum, pp.193–212.
page(s): 196 [details]

identification resource Khalifa, R.; Hassan, H.; Mohamadain, H. (2018). Molecular Phylogenetic Taxonomy and Descriptive Analysis on Hexangium sigani Goto & Ozaki, 1929 (Digenea: Microscaphidiidae) from Three Different Siganus spp. Fishes from Red Sea, Egypt. Applied Microbiology: Open Access. 04(02)., available online at https://doi.org/10.4172/2471-9315.1000147 [details]

identification resource Skrjabin, K. I. (1949). Suborder Paramphistomatata (Szidat, 1936) Skrjabin et Schulz, 1937. Osnovy Trematodologii. 3: 5–619. (In Russian).
page(s): 541 [details]

Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hexangium)
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