Opegaster Explained

Opegaster is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae.

Species

• Opegaster acuta Manter, 1940^[1]
• Opegaster alykhani Bilqees, Hadi, Khatoon, Muti-ur-Rehman, Perveen & Haseeb, 2009^[2]
• Opegaster anguilli Harshey, 1933^[3]
• Opegaster apogonichthydis Yamaguti, 1938^[4]
• Opegaster beliyai Pande, 1937^[5]
• Opegaster bothi Yamaguti, 1970^[6]
• Opegaster brevifistula Ozaki, 1928
• Opegaster cameroni Caballero y Caballero & Caballero Rodríguez, 1969^[7]
• Opegaster caulopsettae Manter, 1954^[8]
• Opegaster cryptocentri Yamaguti, 1958^[9]
• Opegaster dactylopteri Yamaguti, 1970^[6]
• Opegaster dendrochiri Yamaguti, 1970^[6]
• Opegaster dermatogenyos Yamaguti, 1970^[6]
• Opegaster ditrematis Yamaguti, 1942^[10]
• Opegaster elongata Yamaguti, 1959^[11]
• Opegaster gobii Yamaguti, 1952^[12]
• Opegaster gonorhynchi Gavrilyuk-Tkachuk, 1979^[13]
• Opegaster hawaiiensis Yamaguti, 1970^[6]
• Opegaster hippocampi Shen, 1982^[14]
• Opegaster iniistii Yamaguti, 1970^[6]
• Opegaster lobulus Wang, 1977^[15]
• Opegaster longivesicula Yamaguti, 1952^[12]
• Opegaster lutiani Bravo-Hollis & Manter, 1957^[16]
• Opegaster macrorchis Yamaguti, 1938^[4]
• Opegaster mastacembalii Harshey, 1937^[17]
• Opegaster mehrii Harshey, 1937^[17]
• Opegaster oplegnathi Wang, Wang & Zhang, 1992^[18]
• Opegaster ouemoensis Bray & Justine, 2013^[19]
• Opegaster ovatus Ozaki, 1928
• Opegaster paramacrorchis Hafeezullah, 1971^[20]
• Opegaster parapristipomatis Yamaguti, 1934^[21]
• Opegaster plotosi Yamaguti, 1940^[22]
• Opegaster pritchardae Overstreet, 1969^[23]
• Opegaster queenslandicus (Aken'Ova, 2007) Bray & Justine, 2013^{[24] [19]}
• Opegaster rectus Ozaki, 1928
• Opegaster syngnathi Yamaguti, 1934^[21]
• Opegaster synodi Manter, 1947^[25]
• Opegaster tamori Yamaguti, 1938^[4]

Notes and References

1. Manter, H. W. (1940). Digenetic trematodes of fishes from the Galapagos Islands and the neighboring Pacific. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 2, 325–497
2. Bilqees, F., Hadi, R., Khatoon, N., Muti-ur-Rehman, Perveen, S. & Haseeb, M. (2009). Opegaster alykhani n. sp. (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from the fish Lutjanus argentimaculatus (Day) of Karachi coast. Proceedings of Parasitology, 48, 65–71.
3. Harshey, K. R. (1933). On a new trematode with anus belonging to the genus Opegaster Ozaki, 1928, from an Indian eel, Anguilla bengalensis. Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, 3(2), 113–118.
4. Yamaguti, S. (1938). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 21. Trematodes of fishes, IV. Kyoto: Yamaguti, S.
5. Pande, В. P. (1937). Two new fish trematodes from Allahabad. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India, Biological Sciences, 7(2), 111–115.
6. Yamaguti, S. (1970). Digenetic Trematodes of Hawaiian Fishes. Tokyo: Keigaku.
7. Caballero y Caballero, E. & Caballero Rodríguez, G. (1969). Un trematode nouveau parasite de Rana pipiens Schreber, 1872 de la République de Costa Rica (Amerique centrale). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée, 44, 539–546.
8. Manter, H. W. (1954). Some digenetic trematodes from fishes of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 82, 475–568.
9. Yamaguti, S. (1958). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 52. Trematodes of fishes, XI. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 6, 369–384.
10. Yamaguti, S. (1942). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 39. Trematodes of fishes mainly from Naha. Transactions of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 3, 329–398.
11. Yamaguti, S. (1959). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 54. Trematodes of fishes, XII. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 7, 241–262.
12. Yamaguti, S. (1952). Parasitic worms mainly from Celebes. Part 1. New digenetic trematodes of fishes. Acta Medicinae Okayama, 8, 146–198.
13. Gavrilyuk-Tkachuk, L. P. (1979). New species of trematodes from commercial fishes of the Indian Ocean. Biologiya Morya, Vladivostok, 3, 83–86.
14. Shen J. (1982). Two new digenetic trematodes from the seahorse Hippocampus trimaculatus. Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica, 13, 285–288.
15. Wang, P. (1977). A survey of the parasites of eels from Fujian Province, China, II. Journal of Fujian Teachers' University, Natural Science, 1, 53–63.
16. Bravo-Hollis, M. & Manter, H. (1957). Trematodes of marine fishes of Mexican waters. X. Thirteen Digenea including nine new species and two new genera from Pacific coast. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 24, 35–48.
17. Harshey, K. R. (1937). On two new trematodes of the genus Opegaster Ozaki, with a systematic discussion on the families Opecœlidæ Ozaki, 1925 and Coitocæcidæ Ozaki, 1928. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, A(3).
18. Wang Y., Wang P. & Zhang W. (1992). Opecoelid trematodes of marine fishes from Fujian Province. Wuyi Science Journal, 9, 67–89.
19. Bray, R. & Justine, J. (2013). A digenean parasite in a mudskipper: Opegaster ouemoensis sp. n. (Digenea: Opecoelidae) in Periophthalmus argentilineatus Valenciennes (Perciformes: Gobiidae) in the mangroves of New Caledonia. Folia Parasitologica, 60(1), 7–16.
20. Hafeezullah, M. (1971). Opecoelid trematodes of marine fishes of India. Parasitology, 62, 321–329.
21. Yamaguti, S. (1934). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 2. Trematodes of fishes, I. Japanese Journal of Zoology, 5, 249–541.
22. Yamaguti, S. (1940). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan, Part 31. Trematodes of fishes, VII. Japanese Journal of Zoology, 9, 35–108.
23. Overstreet, R. M. (1969). Digenetic trematodes of marine teleost fishes from Biscayne Bay, Florida. Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany, 15, 119–176.
24. Aken’Ova, T. O. (2007). The taxonomic status of Opegaster Ozaki, 1928 and the description of four new species of Opecoelus Ozaki, 1925 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from marine teleosts in Australian waters. Systematic Parasitology, 67, 25–42.
25. Manter, H. W. (1947). The digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of Tortugas, Florida. American Midland Naturalist, 38, 257–416.