Podocotyloides Explained

Podocotyloides is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae.

Species

• Podocotyloides australis Martin, Cutmore & Cribb, 2018^[1]
• Podocotyloides brevis Andres & Overstreet, 2013^[2]
• Podocotyloides brevivesiculatus Martin, Cutmore & Cribb, 2018^[1]
• Podocotyloides buckleyi (Saoud & Ramadan, 1984)^[3]
• Podocotyloides ghanensis (Fischthal & Thomas, 1970) Aken'Ova, 2003^{[4] [5]}
• Podocotyloides ghardaguensis (Saoud & Ramadan, 1984)^[3]
• Podocotyloides gracilis (Yamaguti, 1952) Pritchard, 1966^{[6] [7]}
• Podocotyloides magnatestis Aleshkina & Gaevskaya, 1985^[8]
• Podocotyloides parupenei (Manter, 1963) Pritchard, 1966^{[9] [7]}
• Podocotyloides petalophallus Yamaguti, 1934
• Podocotyloides stenometra Pritchard, 1966^[7]

Notes and References

1. Martin, S. B., Cutmore, S. C. & Cribb, T. H. (2018). Revision of Podocotyloides Yamaguti, 1934 (Digenea: Opecoelidae), resurrection of Pedunculacetabulum Yamaguti, 1934, and the renaming of a cryptic opecoelid species. Systematic Parasitology, 95(1), 1–31.
2. Andres, M. J. & Overstreet, R. M. (2013). A new species of Podocotyloides (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from the grey conger eel, Conger esculentus, in the Caribbean Sea. Journal of Parasitology, 99, 619–623.
3. Saoud, M. F. & Ramadan, M. M. (1984). Two trematodes of genus Pedunculacetabulum Yamaguti, 1934 from Red Sea fishes. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 14, 321–328.
4. Fischthal, J. H. & Thomas, J. D. (1970). Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes from Ghana: family Opecoelidae. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 37, 129–141.
5. Aken'Ova, T. O. L. (2003). A new species of Podocotyloides Yamaguti, 1934 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from a Western Australian temperate marine fish. Systematic Parasitology, 55, 127–133.
6. Yamaguti, S. (1952). Parasitic worms mainly from Celebes. Part 1. New digenetic trematodes of fishes. Acta Medica Okayama, 8, 148–198.
7. Pritchard, M. H. (1966). A revision of the genus Podocotyle (Trematoda: Opecoelidae). Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie, und Geographie der Tiere, 93, 158–172.
8. Aleshkina, L. D. & Gaevskaya, A. V. (1985). Trematodes of fish from the Atlantic coast of Africa. Nauchnye Doklady Vyssheii Shkoly, Biologicheskie Nauki, 3, 35–40.
9. Manter, H. W. (1963). Studies on digenetic trematodes of fishes of Fiji. II. Families Lepocreadiidae, Opistholebetidae, and Opecoelidae. Journal of Parasitology, 49, 99–113.