Marine Species Traits - Mesocoeliidae Faust, 1924

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Mesocoeliidae Faust, 1924

AphiaID

468965 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:468965)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Type taxon

Mesocoelium Odhner, 1910

Parent

Gorgoderoidea Looss, 1901

Synonymised names

Mesocoelidae Dollfus, 1929 · unaccepted (Lapsus)

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Genus Mesocoelium Odhner, 1910
Genus Pintneria Poche, 1907
Genus Hoploderma Cohn, 1903 accepted as Pintneria Poche, 1907 (unaccepted > junior homonym, replacement name)

Environment

marine, fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Faust, E. C. (1924). What constitutes a justifiable basis for systematic grouping of larval trematodes?. Journal of Parasitology. 11 (2): 112–115.
page(s): 114; note: as subfamily [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Mesocoeliidae Faust, 1924. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=468965 on 2025-05-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2010-04-26 13:13:54Z

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Cribb, Thomas

2021-02-26 16:31:17Z

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Gibson, David

2021-02-27 09:12:39Z

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Bray, Rod

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Nomenclature

original description Faust, E. C. (1924). What constitutes a justifiable basis for systematic grouping of larval trematodes?. Journal of Parasitology. 11 (2): 112–115.
page(s): 114; note: as subfamily [details]

Taxonomy

redescription Dronen, N. O.; Calhoun, D. M.; Simcik, S. R. (2012). Mesocoelium Odhner, 1901 (Digenea: Mesocoelidae) revisited; a revision of the family and re-evaluation of species composition in the genus. Zootaxa. 3387: 1–96. [details]

Identification resource

identification resource Rosser, T. G.; Alberson, N. R.; Woodyard, E. T.; Cunningham, F. L.; Pote, L. M.; Griffin, M. J. (2017). Clinostomum album n. sp. and Clinostomum marginatum (Rudolphi, 1819), parasites of the great egret Ardea alba L. from Mississippi, USA. Systematic Parasitology. 94 (1): 35–49., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-016-9686-0
page(s): 261 [details]

identification resource Pojmańska, T. (2008). Family Mesocoeliidae Dollfus, 1929. In: Bray, R. A.; Gibson, D. I.; Jones, A. (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 3. Wallingford, CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 261–263.
page(s): 261 [details]

identification resource Skrjabin, K. I., Morozov, F. N. (1959). Family Mesocoeliidae Dollfus, 1950. Osnovy Trematodologii. 16: 634–703. (In Russian).
page(s): 635 [details]

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