Pachycreadium Explained

Pachycreadium is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae.

Species

• Pachycreadium angolense Aleshkina & Gaevskaya, 1985^[1]
• Pachycreadium carnosum (Rudolphi, 1819) Cortini & Ferretti, 1959^{[2] [3]}
• Pachycreadium gastrocotylum (Manter, 1940) Manter, 1954^[4]
• Pachycreadium lerneri Sogandares-Bernal, 1959^[5]
• Pachycreadium lethrini Hassanine, 2006^[6]

Notes and References

1. Aleshkina, L. D. & Gaevskaya, A. V. (1985). Trematodes of fish from the Atlantic coast of Africa. Nauchnye Doklady Vysshei Shkoly, Biologicheskie Nauki, 3, 35–40.
2. Rudolphi, C. A. (1819). Entozoorum Synopsis cui Accedunt Mantissa Duplex et Indices Locupletissimi. Berolini: Sumtibus Augusti Rücker.
3. Cortini, M. & Ferretti, G. (1959). Pachycreadium carnosum (Rudolphi, 1819), n. comb., trematode parassita di Dentex vulgaris. Parassitologia, 1, 183–193.
4. Manter, H. W. (1940). Digenetic trematodes of fishes from the Galapagos Islands and the neighboring Pacific. Reports on the Collections Obtained by Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions of Velero III off the Coast of Mexico, Central America, South America, and Galapagos Islands in 1932, in 1933, in 1934, in 1935, in 1936, in 1937, and in 1938, 2(14), 329–496.
5. Sogandares-Bernal, F. (1959). Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes from the Gulf of Panama and Bimini, British West Indies. Tulane Studies in Zoology, 7(3), 69–117.
6. Hassanine, R. M. E. (2006). Trematodes from Red Sea fishes: Pachycreadium lethrini sp. nov. (Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925) and Pseudometadena aegyptensis sp. nov. (Cryptogonimidae Ward, 1917), with a review of their genera. Acta Parasitologica, 51(3), 176–181.