Neohelicometra Explained

Neohelicometra is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae. It consists of only one species, Neohelicometra scorpaenae.

Former species

A number of species formerly in Neohelicometra have been synonymised to other genera. They are:

• Neohelicometra antarcticae (Holloway & Bier, 1968) Sekerak & Arai, 1974,^{[1] [2]} synonymised to Helicometra antarcticae Holloway & Bier, 1968^[1]
• Neohelicometra dalianensis Li, Qiu & Zhang, 1989,^[3] synonymised to Helicometra dalianensis (Li, Qiu & Zhang, 1989) Cribb, 2005^{[3] [4]}
• Neohelicometra insolita (Polyanski, 1955) Sekerak & Arai, 1974,^{[5] [2]} synonymised to Helicometra insolita Polyanski, 1955^[5]
• Neohelicometra pleurogrammi (Baeva, 1968) Sekerak & Arai, 1974,^{[6] [2]} synonymised to Helicometra pleurogrammi (Baeva, 1968)^[6]
• Neohelicometra sebastis Sekerak & Arai, 1974,^[2] synonymised to Helicometra sebastis (Sekerak & Arai, 1974) Bray, 1979^{[2] [7]}

Notes and References

1. Holloway, H. L., Jr. & Bier, J. W. (1960). Helicometra antarcticae sp. nov. from Antarctic coastal fishes. Proceedings of The Helmithological Society of Washington, 35(1), 30–34.
2. Sekerak, A. D. & Arai, H. P. (1974). A revision of Helicometra Odhner, 1902 and related genera (Trematoda: Opecoelidae), including a description of Neohelicometra sebastis n. sp. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 52(6), 707–738.
3. Li, Q. K., Qiu, Z. Z. & Zhang, R. S. (1989). Digenetic trematodes of fishes from the Bo-Hai Sea, China. 6. (Trematoda: Opecoelidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 14(1), 2–16.
4. Cribb, T. H. (2005). Family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925. In Jones, A., Bray, R. & Gibson, D. (Eds.), Keys to the Trematoda, Volume 2 (pp. 443–531). London: CABI Publishing and the Natural History Museum.
5. Polyanski, Y. I. (1955). Studies on the parasitology of the fish in the northern seas of the USSR. Parasites of fish of the Barents Sea. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Leningrad, 19, 5–170.
6. Baeva, O. M. (1968). Helminth fauna of Pleurogrammus azonus in the Sea of Japan. In Skrjabin, K. I. & Mamaev, Y. L. (Eds.), Helminths of animals of the Pacific Ocean (pp. 80–88). Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Nauka.
7. Bray, R. A. (1979). Digenea in marine fishes from the eastern seaboard of Canada. Journal of Natural History, 13, 399–431.