Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Xiphidiata > Superfamily Opecoeloidea

Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Bathycreadiinae Martin, Huston, Cutmore & Cribb, 2019
Hamacreadiinae Martin, Downie & Cribb, 2020
Helicometrinae Bray, Cribb, Littlewood & Waeschenbach, 2016
Opecoelinae Ozaki, 1925
Opecoelininae Gibson & Bray, 1984
Opistholebetinae Fukui, 1929
Plagioporinae Manter, 1947
Podocotylinae Dollfus, 1959
Pseudosphaerostomum Koval & Schevestschenko, 1970
Scorpidotrematinae Sokolov, Shchenkov, Frolov & Gordeev, 2022
Sphaerostomum Rudolphi, 1809

Literature

original description	Ozaki, Y. (1925). Preliminary notes on a trematode with anus. Journal of Parasitology. 12: 51-53.
basis of record	Gibson, D.I. (2001). Digenea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 136-142
additional source	Choudhary, K.; Verma, A. K.; Swaroop, S.; Agrawal, N. (2015). A review on the molecular characterization of digenean parasites using molecular markers with special reference to ITS region. Helminthologia. 52(3): 167-187.
additional source	Martin, S. B.; Downie, A. J.; Cribb, T. H. (2020). A new subfamily for a clade of opecoelids (Trematoda: Digenea) exploiting marine fishes as second-intermediate hosts, with the first report of opecoelid metacercariae from an elasmobranch. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 188 (2): 455–472.
additional source	Bray, R. A.; Cribb, T. H.; Littlewood, D. T. J.; Waeschenbach, A. (2016). The molecular phylogeny of the digenean family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925 and the value of morphological characters, with the erection of a new subfamily. Folia Parasitologica. 63.
identification resource	Cribb, T. H. (2005). Family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925. In: Jones, A., Bray, R. A. & Gibson, D. I. (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 2. Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 443–531.
identification resource	Skrjabin, K. I.; Petrov, A. M. (1958). Family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925. Subfamilies Opecoelinae Stunkard, 1931; Genitocotylinae Skrjabin, Petrow et Koval, 1958; Horatrematinae Srivastava, 1942; Notoporinae Srivastava, 1942. Osnovy Trematodologii. 15: 79–329. (In Russian).
identification resource	Shimazu, T. (1988). Trematodes of the genera Coitocaecum, Dimerosaccus and Opecoelus (Opecoelidae: Opecoelinae) from freshwater fishes of Japan. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology. 37, 1-19.
identification resource	Ozaki, Y. (1928). On some trematodes with anus. Japanese Journal of Zoology. 2: 5-33.
biology source	Barnett, L. J.; Miller, T. L.; Cribb, T. H. (2014). A review of the currently recognised opecoelid cercariae, including the identification and emergence ecology of Cercaria capricornia XII (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from Nassarius olivaceus (Gastropoda: Nassariidae) in Central Queensland, Australia. Parasitology International. 63 (5): 670–682.