Marine Species Traits - Plectognathotrema Layman, 1930

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Plectognathotrema Layman, 1930

AphiaID

725128 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:725128)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Plectognathotrema cephalopore Layman, 1930 (type by original designation)

Parent

Cephaloporinae Yamaguti, 1934

Synonymised names

Plectognathotrema (Alloplectognathotrema) Kamegai, 1970 · unaccepted (synonym)

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Species Plectognathotrema cephalopore Layman, 1930
Species Plectognathotrema hydrolagi Olson, Hanson & Pratt, 1970
Species Plectognathotrema kamegaii Cutmore, Miller, Bray & Cribb, 2014
Species Plectognathotrema ovatum Parukhin, 1964
Subgenus Plectognathotrema (Alloplectognathotrema) Kamegai, 1970 accepted as Plectognathotrema Layman, 1930 (synonym)
1. Species Plectognathotrema (Alloplectognathotrema) tsushimaense Kamegai, 1970 accepted as Plectognathotrema tsushimaense Kamegai, 1970 accepted as Plectognathotrema cephalopore Layman, 1930 (Superseded combination)
Species Plectognathotrema lobatum Ozaki, 1937 accepted as Yamagutiplectognathotrema lobatus (Ozaki, 1937) Parukhin, 1977 accepted as Yamagutiplectognathotrema lobatum (Ozaki, 1937) Parukhin, 1977 (Superseded combination)
Species Plectognathotrema ovata Parukhin, 1964 accepted as Plectognathotrema ovatum Parukhin, 1964 (malformed suffix)
Species Plectognathotrema tsushimaense Kamegai, 1970 accepted as Plectognathotrema cephalopore Layman, 1930 (Synonym)

Environment

marine

Original description

Layman, E. M. (1930). Parasitic worms from the fishes of Peter The Great Bay. Izvestiya Tikhookeanskoi Nauchno-Promyslovi Ostantsii. 3: 1-120.
page(s): 91 [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomy Transferred from the Fellodistomidae to the Zoogonidae by Cutmore et al. (2014)

Taxonomy Transferred from the Fellodistomidae to the Zoogonidae by Cutmore et al. (2014) [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Plectognathotrema Layman, 1930. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=725128 on 2025-05-13

Taxonomic edit history

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2013-04-16 08:23:45Z

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Boxshall, Geoff

2013-07-10 06:45:38Z

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Gibson, David

2014-10-09 15:18:03Z

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Gibson, David

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Gibson, David

2019-08-27 07:54:04Z

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Bray, Rod

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Nomenclature

original description Layman, E. M. (1930). Parasitic worms from the fishes of Peter The Great Bay. Izvestiya Tikhookeanskoi Nauchno-Promyslovi Ostantsii. 3: 1-120.
page(s): 91 [details]

original description (of Plectognathotrema (Alloplectognathotrema) Kamegai, 1970) Kamegai, S. (1970). Plectognathotrema (Alloplectognathotrema) tsushimaense n. subg. n. sp. (Trematoda: Cephaloporidae, Plectognathotrematinae n. subfam.), from intestine of marine fish, Navodon modestus. Research Bulletin of the Meguro Parasitological Museum. 3: 5-11.
page(s): 6 [details]

Identification resource

identification resource Skrjabin, K. I. (1952). Family Cephaloporidae Travassos, 1934. Osnovy Trematodologii. 7: 8–18. (In Russian).
page(s): 12 [details]

identification resource Bray, R. A. (2002). Family Fellodistomidae Nicoll, 1909. In: Gibson, D.I., Jones, A. & Bray, R.A. [Eds]. Keys to the Trematoda. Vol. 1. Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 261-293.
page(s): 285 [details]

Other

additional source Ozaki, Y. (1937). Studies on the trematode families Gyliauchenidae and Opistholebetidae, with special reference to lymph system. II. Journal of Science of the Hiroshima University. 5, 167–244.
page(s): 234; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details]

From editor or global species database

Taxonomy Transferred from the Fellodistomidae to the Zoogonidae by Cutmore et al. (2014) [details]

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