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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

*'' Maculifer dayawanensis'' Shen & Tong, 1990Shen, J. W. & Tong, Y. Y. (1990). Studies on the digenetic trematodes of fishes from the Daya Bay. ''Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica'', 15, 385–392. *'' Maculifer indicus'' (Gupta, 1968) Cribb, 2005Gupta, A. N. (1968). Studies on ''Pseudoheterolebes'' g. n. (Trematoda: Digenea) from ''Tetradon viridipunctatus'' (Gunther) from Madras, India with the description of ''P. indicus'' sp. n. as its type-species and key to the genera of family Opistholebetidae Fukui, 1929. ''Acta Parasitologica Polonica'', 15, 355–359.Cribb, T. H. (2005). Family Opistholebetidae Fukui, 1929. In Bray, R., Gibson, D. & Jones, A. (Eds.), ''Keys to the Trematoda. Vol. 2'' (pp. 533–540). London: CABI Publishing and The Natural History Museum. *'' Maculifer japonicus'' Layman, 1930Layman, E. M. (1930). Parasitic worms from the fishes of Peter the Great Bay. ''Izvestiya Tikhookeanskoi Nauchno-Promyslovi Ostantsii'', 3, 1-120. *'' Maculifer lagocephali'' (Liu, 1999) Cribb, 2005Liu, S. F. (1999). Description of three new species of Opistholebetidae (Trematodes: Digenea). ''Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica'', 24, 265–271. *'' Maculifer pacificus'' Yamaguti, 1938Yamaguti, S. (1938). ''Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. 21. Trematodes of fishes, IV''. Kyōto: Yamaguti, S. *'' Maculifer subaequiporus'' Nicoll, 1915 *'' Maculifer zhoushanensis'' Shen, 1986Shen, J. W. (1986). Digenetic trematodes of fishes from the East China Sea. I. Species of the families Opistholebetidae, Lepocreadiidae and Cryptogonimidae. ''Studia Marina Sinica'', 27, 207–219.

References

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