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 Podocotylinae > Genus Podocotyle

Podocotyle atomon (Rudolphi, 1802) Odhner, 1905

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

PodocotyleDujardin, 1845accepted genus name

Species group names

Fasciola atomon Rudolphi, 1802 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

Sokolov, S.; Shchenkov, S.; Gordeev, I. (2018). Records of opecoeline species Pseudopecoelus cf. vulgaris and Anomalotrema koiae Gibson & Bray, 1984 (Trematoda, Opecoelidae, Opecoelinae) from fish of the North Pacific, with notes on the phylogeny of the family Opecoelidae. Journal of Helminthology. 93 (4): 475–485.

additional source

Køie, M. (1981). On the morphology and life-history of Podocotyle reflexa (Creplin, 1825) Odhner, 1905, and a comparison of its developmental stages with those of P. atomon (Rudolphi, 1802) Odhner, 1905 (Trematoda, Opecoelidae). Ophelia. 20: 17–43.

additional source

Olsen, T. (1976). Podocotyle atomon (Trematoda, Digenea) in Gobius flavescens (Percomorphi, Gobiidae). Sarsia. 61 (1): 55–58.

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Køie, M. (1988). Parasites in European eel Anguilla anguilla (L.) from Danish freshwater, brackish and marine localities. Ophelia. 29 (2): 93–118.

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Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.

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Sproston, N. G. (1939). Notes sur la faune parasitaire des poissons a Roscoff. Travaux de la Station Biologique de Roscoff. 16: 5-27.

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MacKenzie, K. (1968). Some parasites of O-group plaice, Pleuronectes platessa Linnaeus under different environmental conditions. Marine Research. 3: 1–23, figs.1-13, tabs.1-14.

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Heller, A. F. (1949). Parasites of cod and other marine fish from the Baie de Chaleur region. Canadian Journal of Research. 27: 243-264.

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Manter, H. W. (1925). Some marine fish trematodes of Maine. Journal of Parasitology. 12, 11–18.

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Køie, M. (2000). Metazoan parasites of teleost fishes from atlantic waters off the Faroe Islands. Ophelia. 52(1): 25-44.

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Mamaev, Y. L., Parukhin, A. M., Baeva, O. M. (1963). [Parasitic worms of Pleuronectidae from the Far Eastern Seas]. In. [Parasitic worms of animals of the Primorye region and the Pacific Ocean]. (pp. 82–113. (In Russian)). Moscow: Akad. Nauk SSSR.

additional source

Bray, R.A. (1979). Digenea in marine fishes from the eastern seaboard of Canada. Journal of Natural History. 13, 399-431.

additional source

Shotter, R. A. (1972). Notes on helminth parasites of the whiting Odontogadus m. merlangus (L.) from the northern Irish Sea. Journal of Fish Biology. 4: 117–130.

additional source

Radujkovic, B.; Sundic, D. (2014). Parasitic flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea, Digenea, Cestoda) of fishes from the Adriatic Sea. Natura Montenegrina. 13 (1):7–280.

additional source

Odnokurtsev, V. A. (2015). Parasitofauna of vertebrates of Yakutia. Novosieirsk, Izdatel'stvo Sieirskogo Otdelenija Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, pp,. 305. (In Russian).

additional source

Pugachev, O. N. (2003). Checklist of the freshwater fish parasites of Northern Asia. Trematoda. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. Vol. 298, 218 pp. (In Russian).

additional source

Køie, M. (1984). Digenetic trematodes from Gadus morhua L. (Osteichthyes, Gadidae) from Danish and adjacent waters, with special reference to their life-histories. Ophelia. 23 (2): 195-222.

additional source

Kuramochi, T. (2011). Digenean trematodes of fishes caught in Sagami Bay, off Izu Islands and off Ogasawara Islands. Memoirs of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo. 47: 51–63.

additional source

Shulman-Albova, R. E. (1952). Fish parasites of the White Sea around the village of Gridina. Part I. Monogenetic and digenetic trematodes. Uchenye Zapiski Karelo-Finskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. 4, 78–97. (In Russian).

additional source

Nicoll, W. (1910). On the entozoa of fishes from the Firth of Clyde. Parasitology. 3: 322-359.

additional source

Jones, E. I. (1933). Fertilisation and egg formation in a digenetic trematode, Podocotyle atomon. Parasitology. 24 (4): 545–547.

additional source

Shulman, S. S.; Shulman-Albova, R. E. (1953). Parasites of fish of the White Sea. Moscow, Leningrad: Karelo-Finskii Institut Biologii, Akademii nauk SSSR, pp. 198. (In Russian).

additional source

Strelkov, J. A. (1960). Endoparasitic worms of marine fishes of East Kamchatka. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Leningrad. 28: 147–196 (In Russian, English summary).

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Køie, M. (1983). Digenetic trematodes from Limanda limanda (L.) (Osteichthyes, Pleuronectidae) from Danish and adjacent waters, with special reference to their life-histories. Ophelia. 22 (2): 201-228.

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Nicoll, W. (1909). Studies on the structure and classification of the digenetic trematodes. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, New Series. 53(3): 391-487.

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Odhner, T. (1905). Die Trematoden des arktischen Gebietes. Fauna Arctica. 4: 289-372.

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Dawes, B. (1947). The Trematoda of British Fishes. Ray Society, London. 364 pp.

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Ronald, K. (1960). The metazoan parasites of the Heterosomata of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. VI. Digrenea. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 38: 923–937.

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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.

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Hunninen, A. V.; Cable, R. M. (1943). The Life History of Podocotyle atomon (Rudolphi) (Trematoda: Opecoelidae). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 62(1): 57-68.

redescription

Linton, E. (1940). Trematodes from fishes mainly from the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 88: 1-172.

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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

Wang, Y.-Y.; Wang, P.-Q.; Zhang, W.-H. (1992). Opecoelid trematodes of marine fishes from Fujian Province. Wuyi Science Journal. 9: 67-89.

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James, B. L. (1969). The Digenea of the intertidal prosobranch, Littorina saxatilis (Olivi). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 7 (1): 273–316.

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Sokolov, S. G.; Shchenkov, S. V.; Gorodilova, E. J.; Denisova, S. A. (2024). Species diversity of the genus Podocotyle Dujardin, 1845 (Trematoda, Opecoelidae) in the White Sea: morphological, molecular and life history evidences. Polar Biology.

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Werding, B. (1969). Morphologie, Entwicklung und Okologie digener Trematoden-Larven der Strandschnecke Littorina littorea. Marine Biology. 3 (4): 306–333.

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Lühe, M. (1909). Parasitische Plattwürmer. I: Trematodes. Süsswasserfauna Deutschlands. 17, 1-217.

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Uspenskaya, A. V. (1963). Barents Sea benthic crustacean parasite fauna. Moscow, Leningrad, Publishing houses in the Soviet Union, 128 pp. (In Russian).

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Nicoll, W. (1907). A contribution towards a knowledge of the Entozoa of British marine fishes. Part 1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 7 series. 19, 66–94.

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Zhukov, E.V. (1960). Endoparasitic worms of the fishes in the Sea of Japan and South-Kuril shallow-waters. Trudy Zoologicheskogo lnstituta, Leningrad. 28, 3-146 (In Russian).

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Srivastava, L. P. (1966). The helminth parasites of the five-bearded rockling, Onos mustelus (L.) from the shore at Mumbles Head, Swansea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 13. 9m 469-480.

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Brinkmann, A. (1975). Trematodes from Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland. 205(2): 1-88.

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Stunkard, H. W. (1970). The marine cercariae of the Woods Hole Massachusetts Region. Biological Bulletin. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole. 138: 66–76.

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Manter, H. W. (1926). Some North American fish trematodes. Illinois Biological Monographs. 10, 7-138.

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McFarlane, S. H. (1936). A study of the endoparasitic trematodes from marine fishes of Departure Bay, B.C. Journal of the Biological Board of Canada. 2 (4): 335–347.

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Sokolov, S.; Shchenkov, S.; Frolov, E.; Denisova, S.; Gordeev, I. (2023). Molecular and morphological screening of Podocotyle spp. (Trematoda: Opecoelidae) sheds light on their diversity in Northwest Pacific and eastern European Arctic. Journal of Helminthology. 97.

redescription

Krupenko, D.; Kremnev, G.; Gonchar, A.; Gubler, A.; Skobkina, O. (2024). Wandering the taxonomic mine-field: the Podocotyle species complex (Digenea: Opecoelidae). Systematic Parasitology. 101(6).

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Stunkard, H. W. (1983). The marine cercariae of the Woods Hole, Massachusetts region, a review and a revision. Biological Bulletin. 164 (2): 143–162.

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Polyansky, Y.I. (1955). Materialy po parazitologii ryb severnykh morei SSSR. Parazity ryb Barentsova morya. [The parasites of fish of northern marine waters of the USSR. Parasites of the fish of the Barents Sea.]. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Akademii Nauk SSSR, Leningrad (Collection of works on parasitology. Translation by the Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem 1966). 19:5-170, figs. 1-37, tabs. 1-24.

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Palombi, A. (1934). Gli stadi larvali dei Trematodi del Golfo di Napoli. i. Contributo allo Studio della morfologia, biologia e sistematica delle cercarie marine. Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli. 14: 51–94.

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Szuks, H. (1975). Zum Artproblem bei digenen Trematoden, dargestellt am Beispeil der Gattung Podocotyle (Dujardin, 1845) Odhner,, 1905. Zeitschrift der Padagogischen Hochschule 'Liselotte Herrmann', Gustrow. 1975 (2): 259–282.

new combination reference

Tsimbaliuk, A. K., Tsimbaliuk E. M., Saulina T. B. (1979). Morphological outline of Podocotyle spp. from coastal fishes of the Sea of Okhotsk. All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information Publications. 1800 (79): 167–191 (In Russian).

new combination reference

Odhner, T. (1905). Die Trematoden des arktischen Gebietes. Fauna Arctica. 4: 289-372.

biology source

Sannia, A.; James, B. (1977). The Digenea in marine molluscs from Eyjafjördur, North Iceland. Ophelia. 16 (1): 97-109.

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WoRMS (2025). Podocotyle atomon (Rudolphi, 1802) Odhner, 1905. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=108908

Dr. David Gibson. Podocotyle atomon (Rudolphi, 1802) Odhner, 1905. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/46637234-697e-4563-95ee-1fd49444b197

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