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 Hamacreadiinae

Hamacreadium Linton, 1910

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Hamacreadium morgani Baz, 1946
Hamacreadium mutabile Linton, 1910

Literature

original description	Linton, E. (1910). Helminth fauna of the Dry Tortugas. II. Trematodes. Papers from the Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institute of Washington. 4: 11–98.
additional source	Martin, S. B.; Cutmore, S. C.; Ward, S.; Cribb, T. H. (2017). An updated concept and revised composition for Hamacreadium Linton, 1910 (Opecoelidae: Plagioporinae) clarifies a previously obscured pattern of host-specificity among species. Zootaxa. 4254(2): 151-187.
taxonomy source	Martin, S. B.; Downie, A. J.; Cribb, T. H. (2020). A new subfamily for a clade of opecoelids (Trematoda: Digenea) exploiting marine fishes as second-intermediate hosts, with the first report of opecoelid metacercariae from an elasmobranch. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 188 (2): 455–472.
identification resource	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).
identification resource	Cribb, T. H. (2005). Family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925. In: Jones, A., Bray, R. A. & Gibson, D. I. (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 2. Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 443–531.
identification resource	Ramadan, M. M. (1983). A review of the trematode genus Hamacreadium Linton, 1910 (Opecoelidae), with descriptions of two new species from the Red Sea fishes. Japanese Journal of Parasitology. 32(6): 531-539.