WoRMS taxon details
Accacoelium contortum (Rudolphi, 1819) Looss, 1899
109245 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:109245)
accepted
Species
Distoma contortum Rudolphi, 1819 · unaccepted (Superseded combination)
Podocotyle contortum (Rudolphi, 1819) Stossich, 1898 · unaccepted (superseded combination)
marine
(of Distoma contortum Rudolphi, 1819) Rudolphi, C. A. (1819). Entozoorum Synopsis cui Accedunt Mantissa Duplex et Indices Locupletissimi. Berolini: Augusti Rücker. ix + 811 pp., pls. 1-3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9698017
page(s): 118, 424 [details]
page(s): 118, 424 [details]
Type locality contained in Tyrrhenian Sea
type locality contained in Tyrrhenian Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
WoRMS (2025). Accacoelium contortum (Rudolphi, 1819) Looss, 1899. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=109245 on 2025-03-29
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Distoma contortum Rudolphi, 1819) Rudolphi, C. A. (1819). Entozoorum Synopsis cui Accedunt Mantissa Duplex et Indices Locupletissimi. Berolini: Augusti Rücker. ix + 811 pp., pls. 1-3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9698017
page(s): 118, 424 [details]
basis of record Gibson, D.I. (2001). Digenea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 136-142 (look up in IMIS) [details]
new combination reference Looss, A. (1899). Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Trematoden-Fauna Aegyptens, zugleich Versuch einer natürlichen Gliederung des Genus Distomum Retzius. Zoologische Jahrbücher. 12: 521-784., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.2037
page(s): 632 [details]
page(s): 118, 424 [details]
basis of record Gibson, D.I. (2001). Digenea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 136-142 (look up in IMIS) [details]
new combination reference Looss, A. (1899). Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Trematoden-Fauna Aegyptens, zugleich Versuch einer natürlichen Gliederung des Genus Distomum Retzius. Zoologische Jahrbücher. 12: 521-784., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.2037
page(s): 632 [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Ahuir-Baraja, A. E.; Padrós, F.; Palacios-Abella, J. F.; Raga, J. A.; Montero, F. E. (2015). Accacoelium contortum (Trematoda: Accacoeliidae) a trematode living as a monogenean: morphological and pathological implications. Parasites & Vectors. 8:540: 1–11., available online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-1162-1
page(s): 3 [details]
redescription Timon-David, P., Musso, J. J. (1971). Les trématodes digènes du poisson-lune (Mola mola) dans le Golfe de Marseille (Accacoeliidae et Didymozoidae). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 46 (3): 233–256.
page(s): 238 [details]
redescription Linton, E. (1940). Trematodes from fishes mainly from the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 88: 1-172.
page(s): 145 [details]
redescription Dollfus, R.P. (1935). Sur quelques parasites de poissons récoltés à Castiglione (Algérie). [On some fish parasites collected in Castiglione (Algeria).]. Bulletin de la Station d'Aquiculture et de Pêche Castiglione. 1(2): 1-48.
page(s): 214 [details]
redescription Villalba S., C. & J. Fernández Bargiela. (1985). Parásitos de Mola ramsayi (Giglioli, 1883) (Pisces: Molidae) en Chile. Boletín de la Sociedad de Biologia de Concepción. 56:71-78.
page(s): 73 [details] Available for editors
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redescription Bray, R. A., Gibson, D. I. (1977). The Accacoeliidae (Digenea) of fishes from the north-east Atlantic. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoology Series). 31, 53–99.
page(s): 58 [details]
redescription Skrjabin, K. I., Guschanskaja, L. H. (1959). Suborder Hemiurata (Markevitsch, 1951) Skrjabin et Guschanskaja, 1954. Family Accacoeliidae Looss, 1912. Osnovy Trematodologii. 16, 99-183. (In Russian).
page(s): 113 [details]
page(s): 3 [details]
redescription Timon-David, P., Musso, J. J. (1971). Les trématodes digènes du poisson-lune (Mola mola) dans le Golfe de Marseille (Accacoeliidae et Didymozoidae). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 46 (3): 233–256.
page(s): 238 [details]
redescription Linton, E. (1940). Trematodes from fishes mainly from the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 88: 1-172.
page(s): 145 [details]
redescription Dollfus, R.P. (1935). Sur quelques parasites de poissons récoltés à Castiglione (Algérie). [On some fish parasites collected in Castiglione (Algeria).]. Bulletin de la Station d'Aquiculture et de Pêche Castiglione. 1(2): 1-48.
page(s): 214 [details]
redescription Villalba S., C. & J. Fernández Bargiela. (1985). Parásitos de Mola ramsayi (Giglioli, 1883) (Pisces: Molidae) en Chile. Boletín de la Sociedad de Biologia de Concepción. 56:71-78.
page(s): 73 [details] Available for editors
[request]redescription Bray, R. A., Gibson, D. I. (1977). The Accacoeliidae (Digenea) of fishes from the north-east Atlantic. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoology Series). 31, 53–99.
page(s): 58 [details]
redescription Skrjabin, K. I., Guschanskaja, L. H. (1959). Suborder Hemiurata (Markevitsch, 1951) Skrjabin et Guschanskaja, 1954. Family Accacoeliidae Looss, 1912. Osnovy Trematodologii. 16, 99-183. (In Russian).
page(s): 113 [details]
Other
additional source
Threlfall, W. (1967). Some parasites recovered from the ocean sunfish, Mola mola (L.) in Newfoundland. Canadian Field-Naturalist, Ottawa 81:168-172, fig. 1, tabs. 1-2. (vii/ix-1967)
page(s): 168 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Radujkovic, B.; Sundic, D. (2014). Parasitic flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea, Digenea, Cestoda) of fishes from the Adriatic Sea. Natura Montenegrina. 13 (1):7–280., available online at https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.1401.5448
page(s): 79 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kohn, A.; Fernandes, B.M.M.; Cohen, S.C. (2007). South American trematode parasites of fishes. CNPq, FIOCRUZ. 318 pp. [details]
additional source Cribb, T.H., Bray, R.A., Littlewood, D.T.J., Pichelin, S., Herniou, E.A. (2001). The Digenea. In: Littlewood, D.T.J. & Bray, R.A. (Eds). Interrelationships of the Platyhelminthes. London: Taylor & Francis, 168-185.
page(s): 174 [details]
additional source Santoro, M., M. Palomba, S. Mattiucci, D. Osca & F. Crocetta. (2020). New Parasite Records for the Sunfish Mola mola in the Mediterranean Sea and Their Potential Use as Biological Tags for Long-Distance Host Migration. Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 7:1-8., available online at https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.579728 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 168 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Radujkovic, B.; Sundic, D. (2014). Parasitic flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea, Digenea, Cestoda) of fishes from the Adriatic Sea. Natura Montenegrina. 13 (1):7–280., available online at https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.1401.5448
page(s): 79 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Kohn, A.; Fernandes, B.M.M.; Cohen, S.C. (2007). South American trematode parasites of fishes. CNPq, FIOCRUZ. 318 pp. [details]
additional source Cribb, T.H., Bray, R.A., Littlewood, D.T.J., Pichelin, S., Herniou, E.A. (2001). The Digenea. In: Littlewood, D.T.J. & Bray, R.A. (Eds). Interrelationships of the Platyhelminthes. London: Taylor & Francis, 168-185.
page(s): 174 [details]
additional source Santoro, M., M. Palomba, S. Mattiucci, D. Osca & F. Crocetta. (2020). New Parasite Records for the Sunfish Mola mola in the Mediterranean Sea and Their Potential Use as Biological Tags for Long-Distance Host Migration. Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 7:1-8., available online at https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.579728 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
- Type locality
- type locality contained in Tyrrhenian Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
- From editor or global species database
- Adriatic Sea
- Australia
- Canada
- Chile
- Denmark
- Ionian Sea
- Ireland
- Ligurian Sea
- Mediterranean Sea
- Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin
- North Atlantic Ocean
- Norwegian Sea
- South Africa
- South Pacific Ocean
- Sweden
- Tyrrhenian Sea
- United Kingdom
- (no group)
- Unreviewed
- North Atlantic Ocean
