Hamacreadium Explained

Hamacreadium is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae. It is synonymous with Olivacreadium Bilqees, 1976.^[1] Species of Hamacreadium are endoparasitic in fish such as Lethrinus Cuvier, 1829.^[2]

Species

• Hamacreadium cribbi Bray & Justine, 2016^[3]
• Hamacreadium hainanense Shen, 1990^[4]
• Hamacreadium interruptum Nagaty, 1941^[5]
• Hamacreadium lethrini Yamaguti, 1934^[6]
• Hamacreadium longivesiculum (Yamaguti, 1952) Martin, Cutmore, Ward & Cribb, 2017^{[7] [8]}
• Hamacreadium lutiani (Shen, 1990) Martin, Cutmore, Ward & Cribb, 2017^{[4] [8]}
• Hamacreadium morgani Baz, 1946^[9]
• Hamacreadium mutabile Linton, 1910
• Hamacreadium phyllorchis (Bilqees, 1976) Cribb, 2005^{[1] [10]}

Species synonymised with species of Hamacreadium

• Hamacreadium hainanense Shen, 1990^[4]
  • Maculifer spiralis Soota, Srivastava & Ghosh, 1970^[11]
• Hamacreadium interruptum Nagaty, 1941^[5]
  • Hamacreadium interruptus Nagaty, 1941^[5]
• Hamacreadium longivesiculum (Yamaguti, 1952)^[7]
  • Plagioporus longivesicula Yamaguti, 1952^[7]
• Hamacreadium lutiani (Shen, 1990) Martin, Cutmore, Ward & Cribb, 2017^{[4] [8]}
  • Podocotyle lutiani Shen, 1990^[4]
• Hamacreadium morgani Baz, 1946^[9]
  • Hamacreadium agyptia Abdou, Heckmann, Beltagy & Ashour, 2001^[12]
  • Hamacreadium balistesi Nagaty & Abdel-Aal, 1962^[13]
  • Hamacreadium egyptia Abdou, Heckmann, Beltagy & Ashour, 2001^[12]
  • Hamacreadium lenthrium Manter, 1963^[14]
  • Hamacreadium lethrini Nagaty & Abdel-Aal, 1962^[13]
  • Hamacreadium nagatyi Lamothe-Argumedo, 1962^[15]
  • Hamacreadium nebulosae Nagaty & Abdel-Aal, 1962^[13]
• Hamacreadium mutabile Linton, 1910
  • Hamacreadium indicum Gupta & Tewari, 1985^[16]
• Hamacreadium phyllorchis (Bilqees, 1976)^[1]
  • Hamacreadium heterorchis (Bilqees, 1976) Cribb, 2005^{[1] [10]}
  • Olivacreadium heterorchis Biqees, 1976^[1]
  • Olivacreadium phyllorchis Bilqees, 1976^[1]

Notes and References

1. Bilqees, F. M. (1976). Olivacreadium n. gen. (Trematoda: Opecoelidae) based on two new species from the fishes of the Karachi coast. Norwegian Journal of Zoology, 24, 33–36.
2. Cuvier, G. (1829). Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. Paris: Chez Déterville.
3. Bray. Rodney A.. Justine. Jean-Lou. Hamacreadium cribbi n. sp. (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from Lethrinus miniatus (Forster) (Perciformes: Lethrinidae) from New Caledonian waters. Systematic Parasitology. 93. 8. 2016. 761–770. 0165-5752. 10.1007/s11230-016-9662-8. 27638731. 5023753.
4. Shen, J. W. (1990). Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes from Hainan Island. Beijing: Science Press.
5. Nagaty, H. F. (1941). Trematodes of fishes from the Red Sea. Part 2. The genus Hamacreadium Linton, 1910 (Fam. Allocreadiidae) with a description of two new species. Journal of Research of the Egyptian Medical Association, 24(7), 300–310.
6. Yamaguti, S. (1934). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 2. Trematodes of fishes. I. Japanese Journal of Zoology, 5, 249–541.
7. Yamaguti, S. (1952). Parasitic worms mainly from Celebes. Part 1. New digenetic trematodes of fishes. Acta Medicinae Okayama, 8(2), 146–198.
8. Martin, S., Cutmore, S., Ward, S. & Cribb, T. (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.
9. Baz, I. I. (1946). A fish trematode of the genus Hamacreadium Linton, 1910 (F. Allocreadiidae). Journal of the Egyptian Medical Association, 29, 55–61.
10. Cribb, T. H. (2005). Family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925. In Bray, R., Gibson, D. & Jones, A. (Eds.), Keys to the Trematoda, Volume 2 (pp. 443–531). London: CABI Publishing and The Natural History Museum.
11. Soota, T. D., Srivastava, C. B. & Ghosh, R. K. (1970). Studies on the helminth fauna of the Great Nicobar Island. Part I. Trematoda. Proceedings of the 56th Indian Science Congress, 3, 503–504.
12. Abdou, N. L., Heckmann, R. A., Beltagy, S. M. & Ashour, A. A. (2001). Pseudoplagioporus interruptus Durio and Manter, 1968 and Hamacreadium agyptia sp. n. (Trematoda: Opecoeliidae) from the Red Sea Fish in Egypt. Journal of King Abdulaziz University, Marine Science, 12, 175–188.
13. Nagaty, H. F. & Abdel-Aal, T. M. (1962). Trematodes of fishes from the Red Sea, part 19. On three new species of Podocotyle (Family Allocreadiidae). Journal of Parasitology, 48(5), 746–747.
14. Manter, H. W. (1963). Studies on digenetic trematodes of fishes of Fiji. III. Families Acanthocolpidae, Fellodistomatidae, and Cryptogonimidae. Journal of Parasitology, 49(3), 443–450.
15. Lamothe-Argumedo, R. (1962). Redescripcion de dos trematodos digeneos de peces del Pacifico Mexicano. Anales del Instituto de Biología, Universidad de México, 33, 97–111.
16. Gupta, V. & Tewari, M. (1985). Trematode parasites of marine fishes. I. On a new species Hamacreadium indicum n. sp. (Allocreadiidae Stossich, 1903) from a marine fish Chirocentrus dorab (Ruppell) from Madras. Indian Journal of Helminthology, 36(1), 40–44.