Marine Species Traits - Masenia Chatterji, 1933

WoRMS taxon details

Masenia Chatterji, 1933

AphiaID

772076 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:772076)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Masenia collata Chatterji, 1933 (type by original designation)

Parent

Cephalogonimidae Looss, 1899

Synonymised names

Eumasenia Srivastava, 1951 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Pseudomasenia Pan, 1984 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Species Masenia carangai Gupta & Tandon, 1985
Species Masenia orissai Gupta & Tandon, 1985
Species Masenia quiloni (Gupta & Tandon, 1985) Madhavi, 2011
Species Masenia upeneusi Gupta & Puri, 1984
Species Masenia dayali (Gupta & Puri, 1984) Chandra & Saxena, 2016 (uncertain > nomen dubium)

Environment

marine, fresh

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Chatterji, R. C. (1933). On the trematode parasites of a Rangoon siluroid fish Clarias batrachus (Linnaeus 1785). Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences Allahabad. 3: 33–40.
page(s): 39 [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Masenia Chatterji, 1933. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=772076 on 2025-05-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2014-08-01 07:40:38Z

created

Gibson, David

2019-02-04 14:00:57Z

changed

Gibson, David

2020-06-05 08:44:46Z

changed

Bray, Rod

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Chatterji, R. C. (1933). On the trematode parasites of a Rangoon siluroid fish Clarias batrachus (Linnaeus 1785). Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences Allahabad. 3: 33–40.
page(s): 39 [details]

original description (of Eumasenia Srivastava, 1951) Srivastava, N. N. (1951). A new digenetic trematode, Eumasenia mora'dabadensis ng, n. sp.(fam. Plagiorchiidae Luehe, 1901: sub-family Maseniinae Chatterji, 1933) from a fresh-water fish, Heteropneustes fossilis; with a note on the systematic position of the sub-family Maseniinae. Indian Journal of Helminthology. 3 (1): 1–6.
page(s): 5 [details]

original description (of Pseudomasenia Pan, 1984) Pan, J.-P. (1984). Two new genera and three new species of hemiurid and Maseniidae from Kwangtung fishes. In:. Parasitic organisms of fresh-water fish of China (compiled by Institute of Hydrobiology Academia Sinica). Agricultural Publishing House, Beijing.: 125-132. (English summary in separate volume pp. 20-22).
page(s): 130, 21 [details]

Identification resource

identification resource Jones, A.; Bray, R. A. (2008). Family Cephalogonimidae Looss, 1899. 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. 331–337.
page(s): 335 [details]

identification resource Skrjabin, K. I. (1958). Family Maseniidae Yamaguti, 1953. Osnovy Trematodologii. 15: 57–71. (In Russian).
page(s): 61 [details]

Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eumasenia) (from synonym Eumasenia Srivastava, 1951)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Masenia)
To Genbank (from synonym Eumasenia Srivastava, 1951)
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