Helicometrina is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae.

Helicometrina
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Opecoelidae
Subfamily: Helicometrinae
Genus: Helicometrina
Linton, 1910[1]

Species

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Species later synonymised with species of Helicometrina

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  • Helicometrina execta (Linton, 1910) Overstreet, 1969[1][2]
    • Helicometra execta Linton, 1910[1]
    • Helicometrina parva Manter, 1933[12]
    • Helicometrina trachinoti Siddiqi & Cable, 1960[5]
  • Helicometrina nimia Linton, 1910[1]
    • Helicometrina chilomycteri Bilqees, 1976[13]
    • Helicometrina delicatulus Bilqees, 1972[6]
    • Helicometrina elongata Noble & Park, 1937[14]
    • Helicometrina hexorchis Gupta & Sehgal, 1970[15]
    • Helicometrina karachiensis Bilqees, 1972[6]
    • Helicometrina orientalis Srivastava, 1936[16]
    • Helicometrina septorchis Srivastava, 1936[16]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Linton, E. (1910). Helminth fauna of the Dry Tortugas. II. Trematodes. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication, 133, 11–98.
  2. ^ a b Overstreet, R. M. (1969). Digenetic trematodes of marine teleost fishes from Biscayne Bay, Florida. Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany, 15(4), 119–176.
  3. ^ Dhanumkumari, C. (1999). On a new species of the genus Helicometrina Linton, 1910 from brackishwater fishes of Visakhapatnam, India. Rivista di Parassitologia, 16(2), 147–152.
  4. ^ Oliva, M., Valdivia, I., Chavez, R., Molina, H. & Cárdenas, L. (2015). Molecular and morphological evidence demonstrating two species of Helicometrina Linton, 1910 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) in northern Chile. The Journal of Parasitology, 101(6), 694–700.
  5. ^ a b Siddiqi, A. H. & Cable, R. M. (1960). Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of Puerto Rico. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, 17, 257–369.
  6. ^ a b c Bilqees, F. M. (1972). Marine fish trematodes of West Pakistan. VIII. Description of thirteen new species including a new genus Pseudocoitocaecum from fishes of Karachi coast. In Bilqees, F., Saeed, R., Rehana, R., Khatoon, A. & Kaikabad, S. (Eds.), Helminth Parasites of Some Vertebrates Chiefly from Fishes of West Pakistan (pp. 1–40). Karachi: Agricultural Research Council, Government of Pakistan.
  7. ^ Jehan, I. (1973). A new species of Helicometrina (Trematoda: subfamily Allocreadinae). Zoological Survey of Pakistan, 5, 45–47.
  8. ^ Saoud, M. F., Ramadan, M. M. & Al-Kawari, K. S. (1988). Helminth parasites of fishes from the Arabian Gulf. 5. On Helicometrina qatarensis n. sp. (Digenea: Opecoelidae) and Stephanostomum nagatyi n. sp. (Digenea: Acanthocolpidae); parasites of Epinephelus spp. from Qatari waters. Qatar University Science Bulletin, 8, 173–185.
  9. ^ Manter, H. W. & Pritchard, M. H. (1960). Some digenetic trematodes of eels of Hawaii. The Journal of Parasitology, 46, 651–658.
  10. ^ Gupta, V. & Jahan, A. (1977). On some trematodes of marine fishes of Puri. Indian Journal of Helminthology, 27, 46–61.
  11. ^ Gupta, V. & Puri, M. (1986). On some trematode parasites from marine fishes of Puri, Orissa. Indian Journal of Helminthology, 37(1), 49–62.
  12. ^ Manter, H. W. (1933). The genus Helicometra and related trematodes from Tortugas, Florida. Papers from the Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, 435, 167–182.
  13. ^ Bilqees, F. M. (1976). Olivacreadium n. gen. (Trematoda: Opecoelidae) based on two new species from the fishes of the Karachi coast. Norwegian Journal of Zoology, 24, 33–36.
  14. ^ Noble, A. E. & Park, J. T. (1937). Helicometrina elongata n. sp. from the gobiesocid fish Caularchus meandricus, with an emended diagnosis of the trematode genus Helicometrina. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 56, 344–347.
  15. ^ Gupta, N. K. & Sehgal, S. K. (1970). Studies on some hemiurid trematodes from marine fishes of India. Research Bulletin of the Panjab University, Science, 21, 337–341.
  16. ^ a b Srivastava, H. D. (1936). New allocreadiids (Trematoda) from Indian marine fishes. Part I. New parasites of the genus Helicometrina Linton, 1910. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India, 6, 179–185.