WoRMS taxon details

Opechona pyriformis (Linton, 1900) Bray & Gibson, 1990

727473  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:727473)

accepted
Species
Distomum pyriforme Linton, 1900 · unaccepted (Superseded combination)
Lepocreadium pyriforme (Linton, 1900) Linton, 1934 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Neopechona cablei Stunkard, 1980 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Neopechona pyriformis (Linton, 1900) Stunkard, 1969 · unaccepted (Superseded combination)
marine
(of Distomum pyriforme Linton, 1900) Linton, E. (1900). Fish parasites collected at Woods Hole in 1898. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 19:267-304.
page(s): 292 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Type locality contained in Virginian  
type locality contained in Virginian [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Taxonomic remark According to Bray & Gibson (1990), many of the records attributed to this species and its synonyms by various authors are...  
Taxonomic remark According to Bray & Gibson (1990), many of the records attributed to this species and its synonyms by various authors are Prodistomum polonii. [details]
WoRMS (2024). Opechona pyriformis (Linton, 1900) Bray & Gibson, 1990. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=727473 on 2024-04-23
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original description  (of Neopechona cablei Stunkard, 1980) Stunkard, H. W. (1980). Successive hosts and developmental stages in the life history of Neopechona cablei sp. n. (Trematoda: Lepocreadiidae). <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 66, 636–641.
page(s): 637 [details]   

original description  (of Distomum pyriforme Linton, 1900) Linton, E. (1900). Fish parasites collected at Woods Hole in 1898. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 19:267-304.
page(s): 292 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Özer, A. (2021). Checklist of Marine, Freshwater, and Aquarium Fish Parasites in Turkey. <em>Turkish Marine Research Foundation (TUDAV) Publication No: 62, Istanbul, Turkey,.</em> 311 pp. [details]   

new combination reference Bray, R. A., Gibson, D. I. (1990). The Lepocreadiidae (Digenea) of fishes of the north-east Atlantic: review of the genera Opechona Looss, 1907 and Prodistomum Linton, 1910. <em>Systematic Parasitology.</em> 15: 159-202.
page(s): 179 [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Taxonomic remark According to Bray & Gibson (1990), many of the records attributed to this species and its synonyms by various authors are Prodistomum polonii. [details]