Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Lepocreadiata > Superfamily Lepocreadioidea > Family Lepocreadiidae > Genus Opechona

Opechona bacillaris (Molin, 1859) Dollfus, 1927

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Opechona*	Looss, 1907	accepted genus name
*Pharyngora*	Lebour, 1908	synonym

Species group names

*Distomum bacillare*	Molin, 1859	synonym
*Opechona retractilis*	(Lebour, 1908) Yamaguti, 1954	synonym
*Pharyngora retractilis*	Lebour, 1908	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	Lumb, S. M.; Bray, R. A.; Rollinson, D. (1993). Partial small subunit (18S) rRNA gene sequences from fish parasites of the families Lepocreadiidae and Fellodistomidae (Digenea) and their use in phylogenetic analyses. Systematic Parasitology. 26(2): 141-149.
additional source	Ndiaye, P. I.; Bakhoum, A. J. S.; Sène, A.; Diagne, P. M.; Miquel, J. (2013). The ultrastructural characters of the mature spermatozoon of Opechona bacillaris (Molin, 1859) (Digenea, Lepocreadiidae) a parasite of Scomber colias Gmelin, 1789 (Scombridae) off the coast of Dakar (Senegal). Acta Zoologica. 96 (1): 91–98.
additional source	Fischthal, J. H., Thomas, J. D. (1970). Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes from Ghana: Family Lepocreadiidae. Journal of Helminthology. 44 (3/4), 365-386.
additional source	Kohn, A.; Fernandes, B.M.M.; Cohen, S.C. (2007). South American trematode parasites of fishes. CNPq, FIOCRUZ. 318 pp.
additional source	Parukhin, A. M. (1968). Helminthofauna of fishes of South Atlantic. [NB For host list for this paper see Parukhin (1966, pp. 219–222]. Biologiya Morya, Kiev. 14, 96–113. (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	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	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	Ward H. B., Fillingham, J. (1934). A new trematode in a toadfish from southeastern Alaska. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington. 1 (2), 25-31.
source of synonymy	Bray, R. A., Gibson, D. I. (1990). The Lepocreadiidae (Digenea) of fishes of the north-east Atlantic: review of the genera Opechona Looss, 1907 and Prodistomum Linton, 1910. Systematic Parasitology. 15: 159-202.
redescription	Gaevskaya, A. V. (1990). Some remarks on trematodes of the genus Opechona (Lepocreadiidae). Parazitologiya. 24, 439–442. (In Russian, English summary).
redescription	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).
redescription	Madhavi, R. & R.T. Lakshmi. (2011). Metazoan parasites of the Indian mackerel, Rastrelliger kanagurta (Scombridae) of Visakhapatnam coast, Bay of Bengal. Journal of Parasitic Diseases. 35(1):66-74.
redescription	Al-Zubaidy, A. B., Mhaisen, F. T. (2014). Four new records of trematodes from the Indian mackerel Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier, 1816) from the Yemeni coastal waters of the Red Sea. American Journal of Biology and Life Sciences. 2 (6): 141–145.
redescription	Madhavi, R., Bray, R. A. (2018). Digenetic Trematodes of Indian Marine Fishes. Springer, Dordrecht, 693 pp.
redescription	Dawes, B. (1947). The Trematoda of British Fishes. Ray Society, London. 364 pp.
redescription	Wallet, M., Kohn, A. (1987). Trématodes parasites de poissons marins du littoral de Rio de Janeiro, Brésil. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. 82 (1): 21–27.
redescription	Bray, R. A., Gibson, D. I. (1990). The Lepocreadiidae (Digenea) of fishes of the north-east Atlantic: review of the genera Opechona Looss, 1907 and Prodistomum Linton, 1910. Systematic Parasitology. 15: 159-202.
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	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	Skrjabin, K. I., Koval, V. P. (1960). Suborder Allocreadiata Skrjabin, Petrov and Koval, 1958. Part two. Superfamily Lepocreadioidea Cable, 1956. Osnovy Trematodologii. 18, 13-377. (In Russian: English translation (1965) Israel Program for Scientific Translations. Cat. No. 1426, 1967-1272).
redescription	Janiszewska, J. (1953). Some Adriatic Sea fish trematodes. Zoologica Poloniae. 6, 20–48.
redescription	Køie, M. (1975). On the morphology and life-history of Opechona bacillaris (Molin, 1859) Looss, 1907 (Trematoda, Lepocreadiidae). Ophelia. 13 (1-2): 63–86.
redescription	Sey, O. (1968). Parasitic helminths occurring in Adriatic fishes. Part 1. (Flukes). Acta Adriatica. 13: 1-15.
redescription	Reimer, L.W., C. Berger, B. Heuer, H. Lainka, I. Rosenthal & I. Scharnweber. (1971). O rasprostranenii lichinok gel'mentov v planktonnykh zhivotnykh Severnogo morya. [On the distribution of larvae of helminths in plankton animals of the North Sea.]. Parazitologiya, Leningrad. 5:542-550, figs. 1-5, tabs. 1-2. (Russian with English summary).
redescription	Bray, R.; Justine, J.-L. (2012). A review of the Lepocreadiidae (Digenea, Lepocreadioidea) from fishes of the waters around New Caledonia. Acta Parasitologica. 57(3), 247-272.
new combination reference	Dollfus, R.P. (1927). Notules sur des cercaires Atlantique (I-II). [Notes on Atlantic cercariae (I-II).]. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 52:1 111-118.
biology source	Dollfus, R. P. (1963). Liste des coelenteres marins, Palearctiques et Indiens, ou ont ete trouves des trematodes digenetiques. Bulletin de l'Institute des Peches Maritimes de Maroc. 9–10: 33–57.