genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
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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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family
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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 ...
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Species
*'' Choerodonicola calotomi'' (Yamaguti, 1934) mend. Yamaguti, 1938Cribb, 2005Yamaguti, S. (1934). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 2. Trematodes of fishes. I. ''Japanese Journal of Zoology'', 5, 249–541Yamaguti, S. (1938). ''Studies on the Helminth Fauna of Japan. Part 21. Trematodes of Fishes, IV''. Kyōto: Yamaguti, S.
*'' Choerodonicola choerodontis'' (Yamaguti, 1934) mend. Yamguti, 1938 [emend. Kuramochi, 2006 Cribb, 2005Kuramochi, T. (2006). Digenetic trematodes of fishes caught in the Sagami Sea, central Japan. ''Memoirs of the National Science Museum, Tokyo'', 40, 175–186.
*''Choerodonicola pacificus'' (Yamaguti, 1938) Cribb, 2005
*''Choerodonicola renko'' Machida, 2014Machida, M. (2014). Seven species of opecoelid digeneans (Trematoda) from fishes of southern Japan, Palau, and the Philippines. ''Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural Sciences, Series A'', 40(1), 1–3.