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

Copiatestes filiferus (Leuckart in Sars, 1885) Gibson & Bray, 1977

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Copiatestes*	Crowcroft, 1948	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Distomum filiferum*	Leuckart in Sars, 1885	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	Johns, P.; Newman, L.J.; Holleman, J.J.; Dawson, E.W.; Sterrer, W.; Allison, F.R.; Diggles, B.K.; Andrews, J.R.H.; Hine, P.M.; McKenna, P.B.; Poulin, R. (2009). Phylum Platyhelminthes: flatworms, tapeworms, flukes, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 102-128.
additional source	Gibson, D.I. (1996) Guide to the parasites of Canadian fishes. Part IV. Trematoda. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 373 pp.
additional source	Kohn, A.; Fernandes, B.M.M.; Cohen, S.C. (2007). South American trematode parasites of fishes. CNPq, FIOCRUZ. 318 pp.
additional source	Tantalean V. M., Lefevre, M. (2004). Registro de Copiatestes filiferus (Leukart, in Sars, 1885) Gibson y Bray, 1977 (Digenea) y Gorgorhynchus sp. (Acanthocephala) en pez marino de la costa peruana. Revista Peruana de Biologia. 11 (2): 223–224.
additional source	Cribb, T.H., Bray, R.A., Littlewood, D.T.J., Pichelin, S., Herniou, E.A. (2001). The Digenea. In: Littlewood, D.T.J. & Bray, R.A. (Eds). Interrelationships of the Platyhelminthes. London: Taylor & Francis, 168-185.
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).
redescription	Fernandes, B. M. M., Kohn, A., Santos, A. L. (2002). Some Digenea parasites of tunny from the coast of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Biology. 62 (3): 453–457.
redescription	Gibson, D. I. & Bray, R. A. 1977. The Azygiidae, Hirudinellidae, Ptychogonimidae, Sclerodistomidae and Syncoeliidae of fishes from the north-east Atlantic. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoology) 32: 167–245.
new combination reference	Gibson, D. I. & Bray, R. A. 1977. The Azygiidae, Hirudinellidae, Ptychogonimidae, Sclerodistomidae and Syncoeliidae of fishes from the north-east Atlantic. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoology) 32: 167–245.
biology source	Ryan, P. G. (1986). Trematode anklets on procellariform seabirds from southern Africa and the adjacent Southern Ocean. Marine Ornithology. 13: 157–161.
biology source	Furness, R. W. (1984). Trematode anklets in whitefaced stormpetrels Pelagodroma marina at Gough Island. Marine Ornithology. 12: 60–62.

Genbank

Citation

WoRMS (2025). Copiatestes filiferus (Leuckart in Sars, 1885) Gibson & Bray, 1977. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=109374