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

Allopodocotyle Pritchard, 1966

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Allopodocotyle jaffensis (Fischthal, 1980) Bray, 1987
Allopodocotyle pedicellata (Stossich, 1887) Pritchard, 1966

Literature

original description

Pritchard, M. H. (1966). 1966 A revision of the genus Podocotyle (Trematoda: Opecoelidae). Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abteilung für Systematik. 93: 158-172.

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

Bartoli, P.; Bray, R. A.; Gibson, D. I. (1989). The Opecoelidae (Digenea) of sparid fishes of the western Mediterranean. V.Allopodocotyle Pritchard, 1966. Systematic Parasitology. 14(1): 69-77.

additional source

Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].

taxonomy source

Gibson, D.I. (1996) Guide to the parasites of Canadian fishes. Part IV. Trematoda. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 373 pp.

taxonomy 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.

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.

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Allopodocotyle Pritchard, 1966. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=108521

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh

Importance

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2019-11-25 by David Gibson

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