WoRMS taxon details
Homalometron Stafford, 1904
108557 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:108557)
accepted
Genus
Anallocreadium Simer, 1929 · unaccepted (Synonym)
Apocreadium Manter, 1937 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Austrocreadium Szidat, 1956 · unaccepted (Synonym)
Barbulostomum Ramsey, 1965 · unaccepted (Synonym)
- Species Homalometron annahoineffae (Corrêa Gomes & de Fabio, 1970)
- Species Homalometron armatum (MacCallum, 1895) Manter, 1947
- Species Homalometron avis Hernández-Mena, Cabañas-Granillo, Medina-Hernández & Pérez-Ponce de León, 2022
- Species Homalometron balistis (Manter, 1947) Cribb & Bray, 1999
- Species Homalometron caballeroi (Bravo-Hollis, 1954) Cribb & Bray, 1999
- Species Homalometron carapevae Amato, 1983
- Species Homalometron cryptum (Overstreet, 1969) Cribb & Bray, 1999
- Species Homalometron cupuloris (Ramsey, 1965) Cribb & Bray, 1999
- Species Homalometron currani Barger & Wellenstein, 2015
- Species Homalometron dowgialloi Dyer, Williams & Bunkley-Williams, 1992
- Species Homalometron elongatum Manter, 1947
- Species Homalometron foliatum Siddiqi & Cable, 1960
- Species Homalometron frocioneae Fayton & Andres in Fayton, Curran, Andres, Overstreet & McCallister, 2016
- Species Homalometron galaicus (Sanmartin, Alvarez, Quinteiro & Paniagua, 1995) Cribb & Bray, 1999
- Species Homalometron lesliorum Parker, Curran, Overstreet & Tkach, 2010
- Species Homalometron longisinosum (Manter, 1937) Cribb & Bray, 1999
- Species Homalometron longulum Travassos, Teixeira de Freitas & Bürnheim, 1965
- Species Homalometron manteri (Overstreet, 1970) Cribb & Bray, 1999
- Species Homalometron mesoamericanum Perez-Ponce de Leon, Razo-Mendivil & Garcia-Magana, 2012
- Species Homalometron mexicanum (Manter, 1937) Cribb & Bray, 1999
- Species Homalometron microlophi Barger & Wellenstein, 2015
- Species Homalometron moraveci Bray, Justine & Cribb, 2007
- Species Homalometron octopapillatum Perez-Ponce de Leon, Razo-Mendivil & Garcia-Magana, 2012
- Species Homalometron pallidum Stafford, 1904
- Species Homalometron palmeri Curran, Tkach & Overstreet, 2013
- Species Homalometron papilliferum (Szidat, 1956) Ostrowski de Nuñez, Brugni & Viozzi, 2000
- Species Homalometron pseudopallidum Martorelli, 1986
- Species Homalometron robisoni Fayton & McAllister in Fayton, Curran, Andres, Overstreet & McCallister, 2016
- Species Homalometron senegalense Fischthal & Thomas, 1972
- Species Homalometron sophiae (Stossich, 1886) Yamaguti, 1971
- Species Homalometron stradbrokense Cribb & Bray, 1999
- Species Homalometron synagris (Yamaguti, 1953) Cribb & Bray, 1999
- Species Homalometron verrunculi Cribb & Bray, 1999
- Species Homalometron vinodae (Ahmad, 1985) Cribb & Bray, 1999
- Species Homalometron wrightae Cribb & Bray, 1999
- Species Homalometron caballeroi Lamothe-Argumedo, 1965 accepted as Homalometron verrunculi Cribb & Bray, 1999 (Secondary homonym)
- Species Homalometron stradbrokensis Cribb & Bray, 1999 accepted as Homalometron stradbrokense Cribb & Bray, 1999 (unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet)
- Species Homalometron uroproctoferum (Sogandares-Bernal, 1959) accepted as Homalometron mexicanum (Manter, 1937) Cribb & Bray, 1999 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, according to Cribb & Bray, 1999)
- Species Homalometron viguerasi (Zhukov, 1983) accepted as Neoapocreadium viguerasi (Zhukov, 1983) Ahmad, 1987 accepted as Pseudolepidapedon balistis Manter, 1940 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Homalometron pearsei (Hunter & Bangham, 1932) Manter, 1947 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
marine, brackish, fresh
neuter
Stafford, J. (1904). Trematodes from Canadian fishes. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 27: 481–495.
page(s): 487 [details]
page(s): 487 [details]
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Nomenclature
original description
Stafford, J. (1904). Trematodes from Canadian fishes. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 27: 481–495.
page(s): 487 [details]
original description (of Barbulostomum Ramsey, 1965) Ramsey, J. S. (1965). Barbulostomum cupuloris gen. et sp. n. (Trematoda : Lepocreadiidae) from sunfishes (Lepomis spp.) in Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 51 (5): 777-780.
page(s): 777 [details]
original description (of Austrocreadium Szidat, 1956) Szidat, L. (1956). Uber die Parasitenfauna von Percichthys trucha (Cuv. & Val.) Girard der patagonischen Gewässer und die Beziehungen des Wirtsfisches und seiner Parasiten zur paläarktischen Region. [On the parasitic fauna of Percichthys trucha (Cuv. & Val.) Girard of the Patagonian waters and the relationships of the host fish and its parasites to the Palearctic region.]. <em>Archiv für Hydrobiologie.</em> 51(4):542-577.
page(s): 546 [details]
original description (of Anallocreadium Simer, 1929) Simer, P. H. (1929). Fish Trematodes from the Lower Tallahatchie River. <em>American Midland Naturalist.</em> 11(12): 563-588., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/2420148
page(s): 563 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Apocreadium Manter, 1937) Manter, H. W. (1937). A new genus of distomes (Trematoda) with lymphatic vessels. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 2: 11-22.
page(s): 14 [details]
basis of record Gibson, D.I. (2001). Digenea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 136-142 (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 487 [details]
original description (of Barbulostomum Ramsey, 1965) Ramsey, J. S. (1965). Barbulostomum cupuloris gen. et sp. n. (Trematoda : Lepocreadiidae) from sunfishes (Lepomis spp.) in Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 51 (5): 777-780.
page(s): 777 [details]
original description (of Austrocreadium Szidat, 1956) Szidat, L. (1956). Uber die Parasitenfauna von Percichthys trucha (Cuv. & Val.) Girard der patagonischen Gewässer und die Beziehungen des Wirtsfisches und seiner Parasiten zur paläarktischen Region. [On the parasitic fauna of Percichthys trucha (Cuv. & Val.) Girard of the Patagonian waters and the relationships of the host fish and its parasites to the Palearctic region.]. <em>Archiv für Hydrobiologie.</em> 51(4):542-577.
page(s): 546 [details]
original description (of Anallocreadium Simer, 1929) Simer, P. H. (1929). Fish Trematodes from the Lower Tallahatchie River. <em>American Midland Naturalist.</em> 11(12): 563-588., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/2420148
page(s): 563 [details] Available for editors

original description (of Apocreadium Manter, 1937) Manter, H. W. (1937). A new genus of distomes (Trematoda) with lymphatic vessels. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 2: 11-22.
page(s): 14 [details]
basis of record Gibson, D.I. (2001). Digenea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 136-142 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Fayton, T. J.; Curran, S. S.; Andres, M. J.; Overstreet, R. M.; McAllister, C. T. (2016). Two New Species of Homalometron (Digenea: Apocreadiidae) from Nearctic Freshwater Fundulids, Elucidation of the Life Cycle of H. cupuloris , and Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of Some Congeners. <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 102(1): 94-104., available online at https://doi.org/10.1645/15-862 [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Skrjabin, K. I., Koval, V. P. (1960). Suborder Allocreadiata Skrjabin, Petrov and Koval, 1958. Part two. Superfamily Lepocreadioidea Cable, 1956. <em>Osnovy Trematodologii.</em> 18, 13-377. (In Russian: English translation (1965) Israel Program for Scientific Translations. Cat. No. 1426, 1967-1272).
page(s): 154 [details]
identification resource Cribb, T. H. (2005). Family Apocreadiidae Skrjabin, 1942. In: Jones, A., Bray, R. A. & Gibson, D. I. (eds). <em>Keys to the Trematoda, Volume 2.</em> Wallingford, CABI Publishing and The Natural History Museum, 621-639.
page(s): 635 [details]
page(s): 154 [details]
identification resource Cribb, T. H. (2005). Family Apocreadiidae Skrjabin, 1942. In: Jones, A., Bray, R. A. & Gibson, D. I. (eds). <em>Keys to the Trematoda, Volume 2.</em> Wallingford, CABI Publishing and The Natural History Museum, 621-639.
page(s): 635 [details]
Other
additional source
Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
additional source Cribb, T. H.; Bray, R. A. (1999). A review of the Apocreadiidae Skrjabin, 1942 (Trematoda: Digenea) and description of Australian species. <em>Systematic Parasitology.</em> 44(1): 1-38., available online at https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1006197201426
page(s): 6; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details]
additional source Cribb, T. H.; Bray, R. A. (1999). A review of the Apocreadiidae Skrjabin, 1942 (Trematoda: Digenea) and description of Australian species. <em>Systematic Parasitology.</em> 44(1): 1-38., available online at https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1006197201426
page(s): 6; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details]