WoRMS taxon details
Orchispirium Madhavi & Hanumantha Rao, 1970
725091 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:725091)
accepted
Genus
Orchispirium heterovitellatum Madhavi & Hanumantha Rao, 1970 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh
neuter
Madhavi, R.; Hanumantha Rao, K. (1970). Orchispirium heterovitellatum gen. et sp. n. (Trematoda: Sanguinicolidae) from the ray fish, Dasyatis imbricatus Day, from Bay of Bengal. <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 56(1): 41-43., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3277450
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WoRMS (2024). Orchispirium Madhavi & Hanumantha Rao, 1970. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=725091 on 2025-04-02
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Nomenclature
original description
Madhavi, R.; Hanumantha Rao, K. (1970). Orchispirium heterovitellatum gen. et sp. n. (Trematoda: Sanguinicolidae) from the ray fish, Dasyatis imbricatus Day, from Bay of Bengal. <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 56(1): 41-43., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3277450
page(s): 41 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 41 [details] Available for editors
[request]Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Warren, M. B.; Bullard, S. A. (2023). Systematic revision of the fish blood flukes with diagnoses of Chimaerohemecidae Yamaguti, 1971, Acipensericolidae n. fam., Sanguinicolidae Poche, 1926, Elopicolidae n. fam., and Aporocotylidae Odhner, 1912. <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 109(4) : 401-418., available online at https://doi.org/10.1645/23-13 [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Bullard, S.A.; Jensen, K. (2008). Blood flukes (Digenea: Aporocotylidae) of stingrays (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae): Orchispirium heterovitellatum from Himantura imbricata in the Bay of Bengal and a new genus and species of Aporocotylidae from Dasyatis sabina in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Parasitology, 94(6), 1311-1321.
page(s): 1312; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details]
identification resource Smith, J. W. (2002). Family Sanguinicolidae von Graff, 1907. In: Gibson, D. I., Jones, A. & Bray, R. A. (Eds). <em>Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 1.</em> Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 433–452.
page(s): 443 [details]
page(s): 1312; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details]
identification resource Smith, J. W. (2002). Family Sanguinicolidae von Graff, 1907. In: Gibson, D. I., Jones, A. & Bray, R. A. (Eds). <em>Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 1.</em> Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 433–452.
page(s): 443 [details]
