''Bathycreadium'' is a

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trematodes Trematoda is a class of flatworms known as trematodes, and commonly as flukes. They are obligate internal parasites with a complex life cycle requiring at least two hosts. The intermediate host, in which asexual reproduction occurs, is a moll ...

in the

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Opecoelidae Opecoelidae is a family of trematodes. It is the largest digenean family with over 90 genera and nearly 900 species, almost solely found in marine and freshwater teleost fishes.Bray, Rodney A., Cribb, Thomas H., Littlewood, D. Timothy J. & Waesch ...

. It is the only genus in subfamily ''Bathycreadiinae''.

Species

*'' Bathycreadium biscayense'' Bray, 1973Bray, R. A. (1973). Some digenetic trematodes in fishes from the Bay of Biscay and nearby waters. ''Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology'', 26, 151–183. *'' Bathycreadium brayi'' Pérez-del-Olmo, Dallarés, Carrassón & Kostadinova, 2014Pérez-del-Olmo, A., Dallarés, S., Carrassón, M. & Kostadinova, A. (2014). A new species of ''Bathycreadium'' Kabata, 1961 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from ''Phycis blennoides'' (Brünnich) (Gadiformes: Phycidae) in the western Mediterranean. ''Systematic Parasitology'', 88(3), 233–244. *'' Bathycreadium elongata'' (Maillard, 1970) Bray, 1973Maillard, C. (1970). ''Nicolla elongata'' n. sp. (Digenea: Coitocaecidae), parasites dOnos tricirratus'' (Brünich, 1768) (Teleostei). ''Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle'', (2)42, 410–414. *'' Bathycreadium flexicollis'' Kabata, 1961 *'' Bathycreadium nanaflexicolle'' Dronen, Rubec & Underwood, 1977 emend. Pérez-del-Olmo, Dallarés, Carrassón & Kostadinova, 2014Dronen, N. O., Rubec, L. A. & Underwood, H. T. (1977). Two digenetic trematodes from ''Urophycis cirratus'' (Gadidae) from the Gulf of Mexico. ''Transactions of the American Microscopical Society'', 96(3), 403–406.

References

Opecoelidae Plagiorchiida genera Taxa named by Zbigniew Kabata {{trematoda-stub