Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Hemiurata > Superfamily Hemiuroidea > Family Hemiuridae > Subfamily Hemiurinae > Genus Hemiurus

Hemiurus appendiculatus (Rudolphi, 1802) Looss, 1899

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

HemiurusRudolphi, 1809accepted genus name
Apoblema Dujardin, 1845 synonym

Species group names

Fasciola appendiculatus Rudolphi, 1802 objective synonym
Distomum appendiculatum 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

Rees, G. (1970). Some helminth parasites of fishes of Bermuda and an account of the attachment organ of Alcicornis carangis MacCallum, 1917 (Digenea: Bucephalidae). Parasitology, 60: 195-221

additional source

Bao, M., A. Roura, M. Mota, D.J. Nachn, C. Antunes, F. Cobo, K. MacKenzie & S. Pascual. (2015). Macroparasites of allis shad (Alosa alosa) and twaite shad (Alosa fallax) of the Western Iberian Peninsula Rivers: ecological, phylogenetic and zoonotic insights. Parasitology Research, 114(10):3721-3739.

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

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

additional source

Nikolaeva, V. M., Solonchenko, A. I. (1970). The helminth fauna of some benthopelagic fish in the Black Sea. Biologiya Morya, Kiev. 20: 129-166. (In Russian).

additional source

Dione, A.; Quilichini, Y.; Bâ, C. T.; Diagne, P. M.; Ndiaye, P. I.; Marchand, B. (2016). Ultrastructural study of the spermatozoon of Hemiurus appendiculatus (Digenea, Hemiuroidea, Hemiuridae), a parasite of Boops boops (Pisces, Teleostei, Sparidae) off Senegal. Tissue and Cell. 48 (2): 96–103.

additional source

Szuks, H. (1981). Beitrag zur Hemiuridenfauna (Trematoda:Digenea) der nordwestafrikanischen Kiastengewasser. Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Padagogischen Hochschule "Lisselotte Hermann' Giistrow. 2, 179-191.

redescription

Tendeiro J, Valdez V. (1955). Helmintologia ictiologica - Alguns helmintes do saud, Alosa alosa (L.) das aguas portuguesas. Descricao de una nova especie, Mazocraes vtielai n. sp. (Trematoda, Monogenea). Boletim Cultural da Guine Portuguesa. 10: 49–80.

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

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Dimitrov, G. (1991). Trematodes of the superfamily Hemiuroidea Looss, 1899 in fishes from the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. Khelmintologia. 31, 31-44. (In Russian).

redescription

Looss, A. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Distomenfamilie Hemiuridae. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 31, 585–620.

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Gibson, D. I.; Bray, R. A. (1986). The Hemiuridae (Digenea) of fishes from the northeast Atlantic. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series. 51, 1-125.

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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

Skrjabin, K. I., Guschanskaja, L. K. (1954). Suborder Hemiurata (Markevitsch) Skrjabin & Guschanskaja, 1954. First part. Osnovy Trematodologii. 9, 225–653. (In Russian).

redescription

Semenova, N. N., Ivanov, V. P., Ivanov, V. M. (2007). Parasitic fauna and diseases of fishes of the Caspian Sea. Astrakhan: ASTU Press, 559 pp. (In Russian).

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

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

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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.

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Dollfus, R.-P. (1929). Helmintha I. Trematoda et Acanthocephala. Faune des Colonies Francaises. 3, 73–114.

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Cooper, A. R. (1915). Trematodes from marine and fresh-water fishes, including one species of ectoparasitic turbellarian. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. Section IV, Series III, 9: 181-205.

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Paradiznik, V., Radujkovic, B. (2007). Digenea trematodes in fish of the north Adriatic Sea. Acta Adriatica. 48 (2): 115–129.

new combination reference

Looss, A. (1899). Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Trematoden-Fauna Aegyptens, zugleich Versuch einer natürlichen Gliederung des Genus Distomum Retzius. Zoologische Jahrbücher. 12: 521-784.

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WoRMS (2025). Hemiurus appendiculatus (Rudolphi, 1802) Looss, 1899. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=109333

Dr. David Gibson. Hemiurus appendiculatus (Rudolphi, 1802) Looss, 1899. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/fa7be3d6-a5de-4486-9937-d43c3637986d

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Occurrence

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