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 Opistholebetinae

Macvicaria Gibson & Bray, 1982

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Macvicaria alacris (Looss, 1901) Gibson & Bray, 1982
Macvicaria bartolii Antar, Georgieva, Gargouri & Kostadinova, 2015
Macvicaria crassigula (Linton, 1910) Bartoli, Bray & Gibson, 1989
Macvicaria dubia (Stossich, 1905) Bartoli, Bray & Gibson, 1989
Macvicaria maamouriae Antar, Georgieva, Gargouri & Kostadinova, 2015
Macvicaria maillardi Bartoli, Bray & Gibson, 1989
Macvicaria mormyri (Stossich, 1885) Bartoli, Gibson & Bray, 1993
Macvicaria obovata (Molin, 1859) Bartoli, Bray & Gibson, 1989
Macvicaria soleae (Dujardin, 1845) Gibson & Bray, 1982

Literature

original description	Gibson, D. I.; Bray, R. A. (1982). A study and reorganization of Plagioporus Stafford, 1904 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) and related genera, with special reference to forms from European Atlantic waters. Journal of Natural History. 16(4): 529-559.
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. III. Macvicaria Gibson & Bray, 1982. Systematic Parasitology. 13(3): 167-192.
additional source	Jousson, O., Bartoli, P., Pawlowski, J. (2000). Cryptic speciation among intestinal parasites (Trematoda: Digenea) infecting sympatric host fishes (Sparidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 13 (5): 778–785.
additional source	Rima, M.; Marzoug, D.; Pérez-del-Olmo, A.; Kostadinova, A.; Bouderbala, M.; Georgieva, S. (2017). New molecular and morphological data for opecoelid digeneans in two Mediterranean sparid fishes with descriptions of Macvicaria gibsoni n. sp. and M. crassigula (Linton, 1910) (sensu stricto). Systematic Parasitology.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
taxonomy source	Martin, S. B.; Crouch, K.; Cutmore, S. C.; Cribb, T. H. (2018). Expansion of the concept of the Opistholebetinae Fukui, 1929 (Digenea: Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925), with Magnaosimum brooksae n. g., n. sp. from Tripodichthys angustifrons (Hollard) (Tetraodontiformes: Triacanthidae) in Moreton Bay, Australia. Systematic Parasitology.
taxonomy source	Faltýnková, A.; Kudlai, O.; Salganskiy, O. O.; Korol, E. M.; Kuzmina, T. A. (2022). Trematodes from Antarctic teleost fishes off Argentine Islands, West Antarctica: molecular and morphological data. Systematic Parasitology.
identification resource	Zdzitowiecki, K. (1997). Antarctic Digenea, parasites of fishes. Synopses of the Antarctic Benthos. Koeltz Scientific Books, Koenigstein, 156.
identification resource	Bray, R.A., Justine, J-L. (2009). Opecoelids (Platyhelminthes, Digenea) from the fork-tailed threadfin bream Nemipterus furcosus (Valenciennes, 1830) (Perciformes, Nemipteridae), with preliminary keys to the problematic genera Macvicaria Gibson et Bray, 1982 and Neolebouria Gibson, 1976. Acta Parasitologica. Volume 54, Issue 3, pp 218-229.
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.