Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Echinostomata > Superfamily Echinostomatoidea > Family Echinochasmidae

Stephanoprora Odhner, 1902

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Echinoparyphium*	auct.	misapplied name

Children

Stephanoprora gracilis Mendheim, 1940
Stephanoprora graciosa (Sudarikov, 1950)
Stephanoprora pendula (Looss, 1899)
Stephanoprora pseudodenticulata Mendheim, 1940
Stephanoprora spinosa (Odhner, 1910)

Literature

original description	Odhner, T. (1902). Trematoden aus Reptilien nebst allgemeinen systematischen Bemerkungen. Oefvers. K. Vetensk.-Akad. Förh. 59(1): 19-45.
additional source	Skrjabin, K. I. (1947). New material on the systematics and fauna of trematodes of the family Echinostomatidae. Osnovy Trematodologii. 1: 491–511. (In Russian, English translation, 1979, by Amerind Publishing Co.).
additional source	Islas-Ortega, A. G.; Aldama-Prieto, Y.; Sereno-Uribe, A. L.; García-Varela, M. (2024). An advance in the understanding the systematics of Echinochasmus Dietz, 1909 and Stephanoprora Odhner, 1902 (Digenea: Echinochasmidae), with the description of a new species of Echinochasmus from the Neotropical region of Mexico. Parasitology International. 103: 102948.
redescription	Cajiao-Mora, K.; Dutton, H.; Jacobs, F.; Beytell, P.; Netherlands, E.; DuPreez, L.; Bullard, S. (2025). Supplemental description of Stephanoprora ornata Odhner, 1902 (Digenea: Echinochasmidae) infecting the Nile crocodile, Crocodylus niloticus (Crocodylidae) from Namibia with emendation of Mesorchis Dietz, 1909 and a phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Helminthology. 99.
taxonomy source	Tatonova, Y.; Izrailskaia, A.; Besprozvannykh, V. (2020). Stephanoprora amurensis sp. nov., Echinochasmus milvi Yamaguti, 1939 and E. suifunensis Besprozvannykh, 1991 from the Russian southern Far East and their phylogenetic relationships within the Echinochasmidae Odhner 1910. Parasitology. 147: 1469–1479.
identification resource	Skrjabin, K. I.; Baschkirova, E. Y. (1956). Family Echinostomatidae Dietz, 1909. Osnovy Trematodologii. 12: 50–930.
identification resource	Kostadinova, A. (2005). Family Echinostomatidae Looss, 1899. In. Jones, A.; Bray, R. A.; Gibson, D. I. (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda. Vol. 2. Wallingford, CABI Publishing and the Natural History Museum, pp. 9–64.