Pseudoheterolebes Explained

Pseudoheterolebes is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae. After having been originally described, it was largely ignored by other scientists due to the originally vague definition of the genus; Martin et al., 2018 resurrected the genus to resolve a dispute among the existing definitions of Opistholebes and Maculifer, which were also described by earlier reports of Yamaguti.

Species

• Pseudoheterolebes adcotylophorus (Manter, 1947) Martin, Ribu, Cutmore & Cribb, 2018^{[1] [2]}
• Pseudoheterolebes corazonae Martin, Ribu, Cutmore & Cribb, 2018^[2]
• Pseudoheterolebes cotylophorus (Ozaki, 1935) Yamaguti, 1959^[3]
• Pseudoheterolebes diodontis (Cable, 1956) Martin, Ribu, Cutmore & Cribb, 2018^{[4] [2]}
• Pseudoheterolebes stellaglobulus Martin, Ribu, Cutmore & Cribb, 2018^[2]

Notes and References

1. Manter, H. W. (1947). The digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of Tortugas, Florida. American Midland Naturalist, 38, 257–416.
2. Martin, S., Ribu, D., Cutmore, S. C. & Cribb, T. H. (2018). Opistholobetines (Digenea: Opecoelidae) in Australian tetraodontiform fishes. Systematic Parasitology, 95, 743–781.
3. Ozaki, Y. (1935). Two new trematodes of the family Opistholebetidae Travassos. Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Tokyo, 11, 244–246.
4. Cable, R. M. (1956). Opistholebes diodontis n. sp., its development in the final host, the affinities of some aphistomatous trematodes from marine fishes and the allocreadioid problem. Parasitology, 46, 1–13.