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 > Genus Helicometra

Helicometra pulchella (Rudolphi, 1819) Odhner, 1902

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Helicometra*	Odhner, 1902	accepted genus name
*Loborchis*	Stossich, 1902	synonym

Species group names

*Distoma pulchellum*	Rudolphi, 1819	synonym

Literature

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	Kohn, A.; Fernandes, B.M.M.; Cohen, S.C. (2007). South American trematode parasites of fishes. CNPq, FIOCRUZ. 318 pp.
additional source	Gargouri Ben Abdallah, L., Elbohli, S., Maamouri, F. (2010). Digenean diversity in labrid fish from the Bay of Bizerte in Tunisia. Journal of Helminthology. 84: 27–33.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Crofton, H. D. (1941). A record of trematode parasites from Mola mola and Raniceps raninus (Linn.). Parasitology. 33 (2): 209–210.
additional source	Nicoll, W. (1914). The trematode parasites of fishes from the English Channel. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 10(03): 466-505.
redescription	Naidenova, N.N. (1974). Parazitofauna ryb semeystva bychkovykh Chernogo i Azovskogo morey. [Parasitofauna of fishes of the Family Gobiidae of the Black Sea and of the Sea of Asov. ]. Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSSR, Alexander Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Kiev. 182 pp.
redescription	Greze, V. N., Delyamure, S. L. & Nikolaeva, V. M. (Eds.). (1975). Key to the parasites of vertebrates of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 551 pp. (In Russian).
redescription	Osmanov, S. O. (1940). Материалы к паразитофауне рыб Черного моря (Materials on the parasite fauna of the Black Sea fishes; Materialy k parazitofaune ryb Chernogo Morya). Ученые Записки Ленинградского педагогического института им. А. И. Герцена, Каф. Зоологии и Дарвинизма (Uchenye Zapiski, Leningradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Pedagogicheskogo Instituta imeni Gertsena, Kafedra Zoologii i Darvinizma; Proceedings of A.I. Herzen Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute, Department of Zoology and Darwinism). 30-187-265.
redescription	Korniychuk, J. M. (2000). Morphological variability of genus Helicometra (Trematoda: Opecoelidae) maritae from the Black Sea. Ekologiya Morya. 51: 40–44. (In Russian).
redescription	Dawes, B. (1947). The Trematoda of British Fishes. Ray Society, London. 364 pp.
redescription	Nicoll, W. (1910). On the entozoa of fishes from the Firth of Clyde. Parasitology. 3: 322-359.
redescription	Tantaleán V., M., Sarmiento B., L., Huiza F., A. (1992). Digeneos (Trematoda) del Peru. Boletin de Lima. 80: 47-84.
redescription	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).
redescription	Odhner, T. (1902). Mitteilungen zur Kentniss der Distomen. 2. Centralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde und Infektionskrankheiten. 31(4): 152-162.
redescription	Wang, Y.-Y.; Wang, P.-Q.; Zhang, W.-H. (1992). Opecoelid trematodes of marine fishes from Fujian Province. Wuyi Science Journal. 9: 67-89.
new combination reference	Odhner, T. (1902). Mitteilungen zur Kentniss der Distomen. 2. Centralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde und Infektionskrankheiten. 31(4): 152-162.
taxonomy source	Reversat, J.; Maillard, C.; Silan, P. (1991). Polymorphismes phenotypique et enzymatique: interet et limites dans la description d'especes d'Helicometra (Trematoda: Opecoelidae), mesoparasites de teleosteens marins. Systematic Parasitology. 19 (2): 147–158.
biology source	Reversat, J.; Silan, P. (1991). Comparative population biology of digenes and their first intermediate host mollusc : the case of three Helicometra (Trematoda : Opecoelidae) endoparasites of marine prosobranchs (Gastropoda). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 66 (5): 219–225.
biology source	Bartoli, P.; Gibson, D. I. (2007). Synopsis of the life cycles of Digenea (Platyhelminthes) from lagoons of the northern coast of the western Mediterranean. Journal of Natural History. 41 (25-28): 1553–1570.
biology source	Reversat, J.; Silan, P. (1993). Comparative population biology of fish digenes: the case of three Helicometra (Trematoda : Opecoelidae) mesoparasites of marine teleosts in a Mediterranean lagoon. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 68 (3): 128–135.