Marine Species Traits - Orchispirium Madhavi & Hanumantha Rao, 1970

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Orchispirium Madhavi & Hanumantha Rao, 1970

AphiaID

725091 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:725091)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Orchispirium heterovitellatum Madhavi & Hanumantha Rao, 1970 (type by original designation)

Parent

Chimaerohemecidae Yamaguti, 1971

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Species Orchispirium heterovitellatum Madhavi & Hanumantha Rao, 1970

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh

Grammatical gender

neuter

Original description

Madhavi, R.; Hanumantha Rao, K. (1970). Orchispirium heterovitellatum gen. et sp. n. (Trematoda: Sanguinicolidae) from the ray fish, Dasyatis imbricatus Day, from Bay of Bengal. Journal of Parasitology. 56(1): 41-43., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3277450
page(s): 41 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

Traits (2025). Orchispirium Madhavi & Hanumantha Rao, 1970. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=725091 on 2025-05-30

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Orchispirium Madhavi & Hanumantha Rao, 1970. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=725091 on 2025-05-30

Taxonomic edit history

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2013-04-16 08:23:45Z

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Boxshall, Geoff

2013-06-06 11:54:14Z

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Gibson, David

2017-08-11 18:16:39Z

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Gibson, David

2019-10-04 08:18:21Z

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Bray, Rod

2023-08-28 20:38:38Z

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Gibson, David

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original description Madhavi, R.; Hanumantha Rao, K. (1970). Orchispirium heterovitellatum gen. et sp. n. (Trematoda: Sanguinicolidae) from the ray fish, Dasyatis imbricatus Day, from Bay of Bengal. Journal of Parasitology. 56(1): 41-43., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3277450
page(s): 41 [details] Available for editors

taxonomy source Warren, M. B.; Bullard, S. A. (2023). Systematic revision of the fish blood flukes with diagnoses of Chimaerohemecidae Yamaguti, 1971, Acipensericolidae n. fam., Sanguinicolidae Poche, 1926, Elopicolidae n. fam., and Aporocotylidae Odhner, 1912. Journal of Parasitology. 109(4) : 401-418., available online at https://doi.org/10.1645/23-13 [details]

identification resource Bullard, S.A.; Jensen, K. (2008). Blood flukes (Digenea: Aporocotylidae) of stingrays (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae): Orchispirium heterovitellatum from Himantura imbricata in the Bay of Bengal and a new genus and species of Aporocotylidae from Dasyatis sabina in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Parasitology, 94(6), 1311-1321.
page(s): 1312; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details]

identification resource Smith, J. W. (2002). Family Sanguinicolidae von Graff, 1907. In: Gibson, D. I., Jones, A. & Bray, R. A. (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 1. Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 433–452.
page(s): 443 [details]

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