Helicometrina Explained

Helicometrina is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae.

Species

• Helicometrina execta (Linton, 1910) Overstreet, 1969^[1]
• Helicometrina indica Dhanumkumari, 1999^[2]
• Helicometrina labrisomi Oliva, Valdivia, Chavez, Molina & Cárdenas, 2015^[3]
• Helicometrina mirzai Siddiqi & Cable, 1960^[4]
• Helicometrina nimia Linton, 1910
• Helicometrina otolithi Bilqees, 1972^[5]
• Helicometrina plectorhynchii Jehan, 1973^[6]
• Helicometrina qatarensis Saoud, Ramadan & Al-Kawari, 1988^[7]
• Helicometrina quadrorchis Manter & Pritchard, 1960^[8]
• Helicometrina scomberi Gupta & Jahan, 1977^[9]
• Helicometrina unica Gupta & Puri, 1985^[10]

Species later synonymised with species of Helicometrina

• Helicometrina execta (Linton, 1910) Overstreet, 1969^[1]
  • Helicometra execta Linton, 1910
  • Helicometrina parva Manter, 1933^[11]
  • Helicometrina trachinoti Siddiqi & Cable, 1960^[4]
• Helicometrina nimia Linton, 1910
  • Helicometrina chilomycteri Bilqees, 1976^[12]
  • Helicometrina delicatulus Bilqees, 1972^[5]
  • Helicometrina elongata Noble & Park, 1937^[13]
  • Helicometrina hexorchis Gupta & Sehgal, 1970^[14]
  • Helicometrina karachiensis Bilqees, 1972^[5]
  • Helicometrina orientalis Srivastava, 1936^[15]
  • Helicometrina septorchis Srivastava, 1936^[15]

Notes and References

1. Overstreet, R. M. (1969). Digenetic trematodes of marine teleost fishes from Biscayne Bay, Florida. Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany, 15(4), 119–176.
2. Dhanumkumari, C. (1999). On a new species of the genus Helicometrina Linton, 1910 from brackishwater fishes of Visakhapatnam, India. Rivista di Parassitologia, 16(2), 147–152.
3. Oliva, M., Valdivia, I., Chavez, R., Molina, H. & Cárdenas, L. (2015). Molecular and morphological evidence demonstrating two species of Helicometrina Linton, 1910 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) in northern Chile. The Journal of Parasitology, 101(6), 694–700.
4. Siddiqi, A. H. & Cable, R. M. (1960). Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of Puerto Rico. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, 17, 257–369.
5. Bilqees, F. M. (1972). Marine fish trematodes of West Pakistan. VIII. Description of thirteen new species including a new genus Pseudocoitocaecum from fishes of Karachi coast. In Bilqees, F., Saeed, R., Rehana, R., Khatoon, A. & Kaikabad, S. (Eds.), Helminth Parasites of Some Vertebrates Chiefly from Fishes of West Pakistan (pp. 1–40). Karachi: Agricultural Research Council, Government of Pakistan.
6. Jehan, I. (1973). A new species of Helicometrina (Trematoda: subfamily Allocreadinae). Zoological Survey of Pakistan, 5, 45–47.
7. Saoud, M. F., Ramadan, M. M. & Al-Kawari, K. S. (1988). Helminth parasites of fishes from the Arabian Gulf. 5. On Helicometrina qatarensis n. sp. (Digenea: Opecoelidae) and Stephanostomum nagatyi n. sp. (Digenea: Acanthocolpidae); parasites of Epinephelus spp. from Qatari waters. Qatar University Science Bulletin, 8, 173–185.
8. Manter, H. W. & Pritchard, M. H. (1960). Some digenetic trematodes of eels of Hawaii. The Journal of Parasitology, 46, 651–658.
9. Gupta, V. & Jahan, A. (1977). On some trematodes of marine fishes of Puri. Indian Journal of Helminthology, 27, 46–61.
10. Gupta, V. & Puri, M. (1986). On some trematode parasites from marine fishes of Puri, Orissa. Indian Journal of Helminthology, 37(1), 49–62.
11. Manter, H. W. (1933). The genus Helicometra and related trematodes from Tortugas, Florida. Papers from the Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, 435, 167–182.
12. 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.
13. Noble, A. E. & Park, J. T. (1937). Helicometrina elongata n. sp. from the gobiesocid fish Caularchus meandricus, with an emended diagnosis of the trematode genus Helicometrina. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 56, 344–347.
14. Gupta, N. K. & Sehgal, S. K. (1970). Studies on some hemiurid trematodes from marine fishes of India. Research Bulletin of the Panjab University, Science, 21, 337–341.
15. Srivastava, H. D. (1936). New allocreadiids (Trematoda) from Indian marine fishes. Part I. New parasites of the genus Helicometrina Linton, 1910. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India, 6, 179–185.