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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 ...

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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 ...

Species

*'' Caudotestis azurionis'' (Yamaguti, 1951)Yamaguti, S. (1951). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 44. Trematodes of fishes, IX. ''Acta Medica Okayama'', 7, 247–282. *'' Caudotestis dorosomatis'' (Yamaguti, 1951) *'' Caudotestis fusiformis'' (Price, 1934)Price, E. W. (1934). New digenetic trematodes from marine fishes. ''Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections'', 91(7), 1–8. *'' Caudotestis glacialis'' (Zdzitowiecki, 1989) Cribb, 2005Zdzitowiecki, K. (1989). Morphologic and systematic data of 3 digenetic trematode species occurring in nototheniid fishes in the environs of the South Shetlands (Antarctic). ''Acta Parasitologica Polonica'', 34, 319–324.Cribb, T. H. (2005). Family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925. In Bray, Rodney A., Gibson, David I. & Jones, Arlene (Eds.), ''Keys to the Trematoda, Vol. 2'' (443–541). London: CABI Publishing and The Natural History Museum. *'' Caudotestis kerguelensis'' (Prudhoe & Bray, 1973) Cribb, 2005Prudhoe, S. & Bray R. (1973). Digenetic trematodes from fishes. ''Reports of the British, Australian, and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, Series B'', 8, 195–225. * '' Caudotestis nicolli'' Issaitschikov, 1928 * '' Caudotestis opisthorchis'' (Polyanski, 1955) Cribb, 2005Polyanski, Y. I. (1955). Studies on the parasitology of fish in the northern seas of the U. S. S. R. Parasites of fish of the Barents Sea. ''Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta'', 19, 5–170. * '' Caudotestis pachysomus'' Manter, 1954Manter, H. W. (1954). Some digenetic trematodes from fishes of New Zealand. ''Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand'', 82, 475–568. * '' Caudotestis patagonensis'' Cantatore, Lancia, Lanfranchi & Timi, 2012Cantatore, D. M., Lancia, J. P., Lanfranchi, A. L. & Timi, J. T. (2012). A new species of ''Caudotestis'' (Digenea: Opecoelidae) parasitizing the horsefish, ''Congiopodus peruvianus'' (Scorpaeniformes: Congiopodidae) from the Patagonian shelf, Argentina. ''The Journal of Parasitology'', 98(6), 1144–1147. * '' Caudotestis rhabdosargi'' (Wang, 1982)Wang, P. Q. (1982). Hemiuroid trematodes of marine fishes from Fujian province, China. ''Journal of the Fujian Teacher’s University, Natural Science'', 2, 67–80. * '' Caudotestis seychellensis'' (Toman, 1992)Toman, G. (1992). Digenetic trematodes of marine teleost fishes from the Seychelles, Indian Ocean. III. ''Acta Parasitologica'', 37(3), 119–126. * '' Caudotestis spari'' Yamaguti, 1951 * '' Caudotestis trachuri'' (Pogorel'tseva, 1954)Pogorel'tseva, T. P. (1954). New species of digenetic trematodes from fishes in the Black Sea. ''Naukovi Zapiski Kievskogo Derjavnogo Pedagogicheskogo Institutu'', 15(2), 133–137. * '' Caudotestis tyrrhenicus'' Paggi & Orrechia, 1976Paggi, L. & Orrechia, P. (1976). A new species of ''Plagioporus (Caudotestis) tyrrhenicus'' sp. n. and its 2 new parasitologic findings in ''Blennius pavo'' Risso, 1810. ''Parassitologia'', 18(1–3), 21–32. * '' Caudotestis ventichthysi'' Bray, Waeschenbach, Dyal, Littlewood & Morand, 2014Bray, R., Waeschenbach, A., Dyal, P., Littlewood, D. & Morand, S. (2014). New digeneans (Opecoelidae) from hydrothermal vent fishes in the south-eastern Pacific Ocean, including one new genus and five new species. ''Zootaxa'', 3768(1), 73–87. * '' Caudotestis zhukovi'' (Yamguti, 1971)Yamaguti, S. (1971). ''Synopsis of digenetic trematodes of vertebrates.'' Tokyo: Keigaku.

References

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