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 Opecoelinae > Genus Opecoeloides

Opecoeloides vitellosus (Linton, 1900) von Wicklen, 1946

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Opecoeloides*	Odhner, 1928	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Distomum vitellosum*	Linton, 1900	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	Gibson, D.I. (1996) Guide to the parasites of Canadian fishes. Part IV. Trematoda. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 373 pp.
additional source	Hogans, W. E, Hurlbut, T. R. (1984). Parasites of the knifenose chimaera, Rhinochimaera atlantica, from the northwest Atlantic Ocean. Canadian Field-Naturalist. 98 (3):365.
additional source	Williams, E.H., Jr. & L. Bunkley-Williams. (1996). Parasites of offshore big game fishes of Puerto Rico and the western Atlantic. Department of Natural and Environmental Resources & University of Puerto Rico, San Juan & Mayaguez 382pp.
additional source	Nahhas, F. M., & Cable, R. M. (1964). Digenetic and aspidogastrid trematodes from marine fishes of Curacao and Jamaica. Tulane Studies in Zoology. 11: 169–228.
additional source	Overstreet, R. M., J. O. Cook, and R. W. Heard. 2009. Trematoda (Platyhelminthes) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 419–486 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
redescription	Yamaguti S. (1975). A synoptical review of life histories of digenetic trematodes of vertebrates with special reference to the morphology of their larval forms. Tokyo, Keigaku Publishing Co. pp. LXI I + 590 + 219 plates.
redescription	Stunkard, H. W. (1983). The marine cercariae of the Woods Hole, Massachusetts region, a review and a revision. Biological Bulletin. 164 (2): 143–162.
redescription	Siddiqi, A. H., & Cable, R. M. (1960). Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of Puerto Rico. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. 17(3): 257-369.
redescription	Skrjabin, K. I.; Petrov, A. M. (1958). Family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925. Subfamilies Opecoelinae Stunkard, 1931; Genitocotylinae Skrjabin, Petrow et Koval, 1958; Horatrematinae Srivastava, 1942; Notoporinae Srivastava, 1942. Osnovy Trematodologii. 15: 79–329. (In Russian).
new combination reference	von Wicklen, J. H. (1946). The trematode genus Opecoeloides and related genera, with a description of Opecoeloides polynemi n. sp. The Journal of Parasitology. 32(2): 156-163.