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 Helicometrinae

Helicometra Odhner, 1902

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Loborchis*	Stossich, 1902	synonym

Children

Helicometra fasciata (Rudolphi, 1819) Odhner, 1902
Helicometra gobii (Stossich, 1883) Stossich, 1904
Helicometra pulchella (Rudolphi, 1819) Odhner, 1902

Literature

original description	Odhner, T. (1902). Mitteilungen zur Kentniss der Distomen. 2. Centralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde und Infektionskrankheiten. 31(4): 152-162.
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	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
taxonomy source	Sokolov, S. G.; Shchenkov, S. V.; Khasanov, F. K.; Kornyychuk, Y. M.; Gordeev, I. I. (2022). Redescription and phylogenetic assessment of Helicometra antarcticae Holloway & Bier, 1968 (Trematoda, Opecoelidae), with evidence of non-monophyletic status of the genus Helicometra Odhner, 1902. Zoosystema. 44(15).
taxonomy source	Reversat, J.; Renaud, F.; Maillard, C. (1989). Biology of parasite populations: the differential specificity of the genus Helicometra Odhner, 1902 (Trematoda: Opecoelidae) in the mediterranean sea demonstrated by enzyme electrophoresis. International Journal for Parasitology. 19 (8): 885–890.
taxonomy source	Blend, C. K.; Dronen, N. O. (2015). A review of the genus Helicometra Odhner, 1902 (Digenea: Opecoelidae: Plagioporinae) with a key to species including Helicometra overstreeti n. sp. from the cusk-eel Luciobrotula corethromycter Cohen, 1964 (Ophidiiformes: Ophidiidae) from the Gulf of Mexico. Marine Biodiversity. 45(2): 183-270.
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., Koval, V. P. (1958). Family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925. Subfamilies: Coitocaecinae Poche, 1925; Plagioporinae Manter, 1947. Osnovy Trematodologii. 15, 329–818. (In Russian).