WoRMS taxon details
Metagonimus Katsurada, 1912
725364 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:725364)
accepted
Genus
Dexiogonimus Witenberg, 1929 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Loossia Ciurea, 1915 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Loxotrema Kobayashi, 1912 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (pre-occupied)
Loxotremuna Strand, 1942 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Metagonimoides Price, 1931 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Yokogawa Leiper, 1913 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Metagonimus ciureanus (Witenberg, 1929) Price, 1931
- Species Metagonimus minutus Yokogawa in Katsuta, 1932
- Species Metagonimus otsurui Saito & Shimizu, 1968
- Species Metagonimus romanicus (Ciurea, 1915) Ciurea, 1924
- Species Metagonimus yokogawai (Katsurada, 1912) Katsurada, 1912
- Species Metagonimus congolensis Baer, 1959 accepted as Pseudopygidiopsis congolensis (Baer, 1959) Yamaguti, 1971 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Metagonimus dobrogiensis (Ciurea, 1915) Ciurea, 1924 accepted as Metagonimus romanicus (Ciurea, 1915) Ciurea, 1924 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Metagonimus takahashi Suzuki in Takahashi, 1929 accepted as Metagonimus takahashii Suzuki in Takahashi, 1929 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect original spelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
masculine
Katsurada F. (1912). On a new trematode Metagonimus yokogawai. <em>Tokyo Iji Shinshi.</em> 1796: 3483–3489. (in Japanese).
page(s): 3483 [details]
page(s): 3483 [details]
Type locality contained in Oregon
type locality contained in Oregon [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
WoRMS (2025). Metagonimus Katsurada, 1912. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=725364 on 2025-05-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Katsurada F. (1912). On a new trematode Metagonimus yokogawai. <em>Tokyo Iji Shinshi.</em> 1796: 3483–3489. (in Japanese).
page(s): 3483 [details]
original description (of Loossia Ciurea, 1915) Ciurea, I. (1915). Über einige neue Distomen aus dem Darm unserer Haustiere und des Pelikans, für welche die Fische als Infektionsquelle zu betrachten sind. <em>Ztschr. Infektionskr. Haustiere.</em> 16 (6): 445–458.
page(s): 454 [details]
original description (of Dexiogonimus Witenberg, 1929) Witenberg, G. G. (1929). Studies on the trematode-family Heterophyidae. <em>Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology.</em> 23 (2): 131–239.
page(s): 138 [details]
original description (of Metagonimoides Price, 1931) Price, E. W. (1931). Metagonimoides oregonensis, a new trematode from a raccoon. <em>Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.</em> 21 (16): 405–407.
page(s): 405 [details]
original description (of Yokogawa Leiper, 1913) Leiper, R. T. (1913). Observations on certain helminths of man. <em>Transactions of the Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.</em> (1912-13) 6 (8): 265–297.
page(s): 282 [details]
original description (of Loxotrema Kobayashi, 1912) Kobayashi, H. (1912). On a new genus of the trematodes, Loxotrema ovatum. <em>Saikingaku Zasshi, Toyko.</em> 204: 777–786.
page(s): 785 [details]
original description (of Loxotremuna Strand, 1942) Strand, E. (1942). Miscellanea nomenclatoria zoologica et palaeontologica. X. <em>Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica.</em> 11(2): 386-402. [15 Nov. 1942]., available online at https://mndi.museunacional.ufrj.br/aracnologia/pdfliteratura/Strand%201942%20Miscellanea%20nomenclatoria%20X.pdf
page(s): 388; note: nom nov pro Loxotrema Kobayashi, 1912 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 3483 [details]
original description (of Loossia Ciurea, 1915) Ciurea, I. (1915). Über einige neue Distomen aus dem Darm unserer Haustiere und des Pelikans, für welche die Fische als Infektionsquelle zu betrachten sind. <em>Ztschr. Infektionskr. Haustiere.</em> 16 (6): 445–458.
page(s): 454 [details]
original description (of Dexiogonimus Witenberg, 1929) Witenberg, G. G. (1929). Studies on the trematode-family Heterophyidae. <em>Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology.</em> 23 (2): 131–239.
page(s): 138 [details]
original description (of Metagonimoides Price, 1931) Price, E. W. (1931). Metagonimoides oregonensis, a new trematode from a raccoon. <em>Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.</em> 21 (16): 405–407.
page(s): 405 [details]
original description (of Yokogawa Leiper, 1913) Leiper, R. T. (1913). Observations on certain helminths of man. <em>Transactions of the Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.</em> (1912-13) 6 (8): 265–297.
page(s): 282 [details]
original description (of Loxotrema Kobayashi, 1912) Kobayashi, H. (1912). On a new genus of the trematodes, Loxotrema ovatum. <em>Saikingaku Zasshi, Toyko.</em> 204: 777–786.
page(s): 785 [details]
original description (of Loxotremuna Strand, 1942) Strand, E. (1942). Miscellanea nomenclatoria zoologica et palaeontologica. X. <em>Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica.</em> 11(2): 386-402. [15 Nov. 1942]., available online at https://mndi.museunacional.ufrj.br/aracnologia/pdfliteratura/Strand%201942%20Miscellanea%20nomenclatoria%20X.pdf
page(s): 388; note: nom nov pro Loxotrema Kobayashi, 1912 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Scholz, T.; Kuchta, R.; Barčák, D.; Cech, G.; Oros, M. (2024). Small intestinal flukes of the genus <i>Metagonimus</i> (Digenea: Heterophyidae) in Europe and the Middle East: A review of parasites with zoonotic potential. <em>Parasite.</em> 31: 20., available online at https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2024016 [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Pearson, J. (2008). Family Heterophyidae Leiper, 1909. In: Bray, R. A.; Gibson, D. I.; Jones, A. (Eds.). <em>Keys to the Trematoda. Vol. 3.</em> Wallingford, CABI and Natural History Museum, pp. 113–141.
page(s): 119 [details]
identification resource Morozov, F. N. (1952). Trematode superfamily Heterophyoidea Faust, 1929. <em>Skriabin K. I. Trematody zhivonykh i chekoveka (= Osnovy Trematodologii) [Trematodes of animals and humans. Fundamentals of trematodology].</em> 6: 152–615. (In Russian)., available online at http://ashipunov.me/shipunov/school/books/skrjabin1952_trematody_6.djvu
page(s): 252 [details]
page(s): 119 [details]
identification resource Morozov, F. N. (1952). Trematode superfamily Heterophyoidea Faust, 1929. <em>Skriabin K. I. Trematody zhivonykh i chekoveka (= Osnovy Trematodologii) [Trematodes of animals and humans. Fundamentals of trematodology].</em> 6: 152–615. (In Russian)., available online at http://ashipunov.me/shipunov/school/books/skrjabin1952_trematody_6.djvu
page(s): 252 [details]




To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Dexiogonimus) (from synonym Dexiogonimus Witenberg, 1929)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Metagonimoides) (from synonym Metagonimoides Price, 1931)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Metagonimus)
To Genbank (from synonym Metagonimoides Price, 1931)
To Genbank (from synonym Dexiogonimus Witenberg, 1929)
To Genbank
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 092068)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Metagonimoides) (from synonym Metagonimoides Price, 1931)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Metagonimus)
To Genbank (from synonym Metagonimoides Price, 1931)
To Genbank (from synonym Dexiogonimus Witenberg, 1929)
To Genbank
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 092068)
To ITIS