Dimerosaccus

Dimerosaccus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Opecoelidae
Subfamily: Opecoelinae
Genus: Dimerosaccus
Shimazu, 1980[1]
Binomial name
Dimerosaccus oncorhynchi
(Eguchi, 1931) Shimazu, 1980[2][1]

Dimerosaccus is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae. It consists of only one species, Dimerosaccus oncorhynchi (Eguchi, 1931) Shimazu, 1980.[2][1] It has been synonymised with Allocreadium oncorhynchi Eguchi, 1931,[2] Plagioporus honshuensis Moravec & Nagasawa, 1998,[3] and P. oncorhynchi (Eguchi, 1931) Peters, 1957.[2][4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Shimazu, T. (1980). Dimerosaccus gen. nov. (Digenea: Opecoelidae), with a redescription of its type species, Dimerosaccus oncorhynchi (Eguchi, 1931) comb. nov. Japanese Journal of Parasitology, 29(3), 163–168.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Eguchi, S. (1931). A new species of the trematode genus Allocreadium parasitic in Oncorhynchus macrostomus. Nihon Kiseichugakkai Kiji, 3, 20–22.
  3. Moravec, F. & Nagasawa, K. (1998). Helminth parasites of the rare endemic catfish, Liobagrus reini, in Japan. Folia Parasitologica, 45, 283–294.
  4. Peters, L. E. (1957). An analysis of the trematode genus Allocreadium Looss with the description of Allocreadium neotenicum sp. nov. from water beetles. Journal of Parasitology, 43, 136–142.
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