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

Aponurus laguncula Looss, 1907

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Aponurus*	Looss, 1907	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Looss, A. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Distomenfamilie Hemiuridae. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 31, 585–620.
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
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additional source	Solonchenko, A..I. (1982). Helminth fauna of Azov Sea fishes. Naukova Dumka, Kiev. 150 pp. (In Russian).
additional source	Quilichini, Y.; Foata, J.; Justine, J.-L.; Bray, R. A.; Marchand, B. (2010). Spermatozoon ultrastructure of Aponurus laguncula (Digenea: Lecithasteridae), a parasite of Aluterus monoceros (Pisces: Teleostei). Parasitology International. 59(1): 22-28.
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.
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additional source	Fernandes, B. M. M.; Arci, A. D. N.; Cohen, S. C. (2009). New data on some species of Monogenea and Digenea parasites of marine fish from the coast of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária. 18 (02): 13–18.
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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	Fernandes, B. M. M., Kohn, A., Magalhaes Pinto, R. (1985). Aspidogastrid and digenetic trematodes. Parasites of marine fishes of the coast of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Biologia. 45,(1/2): 109–116.
redescription	Bray, R. A.; MacKenzie, K. (1990). Aponurus laguncula looss, 1907 (Digenea: Lecithasteridae): a report from herring, Clupea harengus L., in the eastern English channel and a review of its biology. Systematic Parasitology. 17(2): 115-124.
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	Fischthal, J. H.; Thomas, J. D. (1971). Some hemiurid trematodes of marine fishes from Ghana. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington. 38 (2): 181-189.
redescription	Skrjabin, K. I., Guschanskaja, L. H. (1958). Additions to the monograph on 'trematodes of the suborder Hemiurata (Markevitsch, 1951) Skrjabin et Guschanskaja, 1954'. Osnovy Trematodologii. 14, 822–897. (In Russian).
redescription	Machado, A. B.; Simões, R. O.; Maldonado, A.; Santos, M. A. J.; Luque, J. L. (2024). Morphological and Molecular Analyses of Aponurus laguncula Looss, 1907 (Digenea: Lecithasteridae) Parasitic in Atlantic Spadefish Chaetodipterus faber (Broussonet, 1782) (Acanthuriformes: Ephippidae) from Brazilian Coastal Zone. Acta Parasitologica.
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redescription	Châari, M.; Derbel, H.; Neifar, L. (2016). Morphometrics and levels of infections of digeneans in belonid fish species off the coast of Tunisia. Journal of Helminthology. 90 (5): 523–532.
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).
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redescription	Fonseca, M. C. G. D.; Felizardo, N. N.; Torres, E. J. L.; Gomes, D. C.; Knoff, M. (2022). Hemiurid and lecithasterid digenean trematodes and camallanid and cucullanid nematodes parasitizing flounders collected off the coast of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária. 31(1): e019921.
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redescription	Perez-del Olmo, Gibson, Fernandez, Sanisidro, Raga & Kostadinova. 2006. Descriptions of Wardula bartolii n. sp. (Digenea: Mesometridae) and three newly recorded accidental parasites of Boops boops L. (Sparidae) in the NE Atlantic. Systematic Parasitology Volume: 63 Issue: 2 Pages: 97-107
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