Opistholebes Explained

Opistholebes is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae.

Species

• Opistholebes adcotylophorus Manter, 1947^[1]
• Opistholebes amplicoelus Nicoll, 1915
• Opistholebes cotylophorus Ozaki, 1935^[2]
• Opistholebes diodontis Cable, 1956^[3]
• Opistholebes dongshanensis Liu, 1999^[4]
• Opistholebes elongatus Ozaki, 1937^[5]
• Opistholebes equicotylus Bilqees & Nighat, 1982^[6]
• Opistholebes indicus Gupta, 1968^[7]
• Opistholebes microovus Ku & Shen, 1965^[8]
• Opistholebes tetradontis Gupta, 1968^[7]

Notes and References

1. Manter, H. W. (1947). The digenetic trematodes of Tortugas, Florida. American Midland Naturalist, 38(2), 257–416.
2. Ozaki, Y. (1935). Two new trematodes of the family Opistholebetidae Travassos. Proceedings of the Imperial Academy, 11, 244–246.
3. Cable, R. M. (1956). Opistholebes diodontis n. sp., its development in the final host, the affinities of some amphistomatous trematodes from marine fishes, and the allocreadioid problem. Parasitology, 46, 1–13.
4. Liu, S. F. (1999). Description of three new species of Opistholebetidae (Trematoda: Digenea). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 24, 265–271.
5. Ozaki, Y. (1937). Studies on the trematode families Gyliauohenidae and Opistholebetidae, with special reference to lymph system. Journal of Science of the Hiroshima University, Zoology, 5, 125–244.
6. Bilqees, F. & Nighat, Y. (1982). Two species of the genus Opistholebes Nicoll, 1915 from the fish Diodon hystrix of Karachi coast (Trematoda: Opistholebetidae). Pakistan Journal of Zoology, 14(1), 33–37.
7. Gupta, A. N. (1968). On three new species of Opistholebes (Opistholebetidae Fukui, 1929) from the globe fish, Tetraodon viridipunctatus (Gunther) from India. Journal of Helminthology, 42(3–4), 283–288.
8. Ku, C. T. & Shen, J. W. (1965). Studies on some digenetic trematodes from marine fishes in China. Acta Parasitologica Sinica, 2, 355–365.