WoRMS taxon details

Faustula Poche, 1926

725451 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:725451)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Platyhelminthes (Phylum)
  4. Rhabditophora (Subphylum)
  5. Neodermata (Superclass)
  6. Trematoda (Class)
  7. Digenea (Subclass)
  8. Plagiorchiida (Order)
  9. Gymnophallata (Suborder)
  10. Gymnophalloidea (Superfamily)
  11. Faustulidae (Family)
  12. Faustula (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Eurema keksooni MacCallum, 1918 accepted as Faustula keksooni (MacCallum, 1918) Poche, 1926 (type by original designation)
Faustulidae Poche, 1926
Eurema MacCallum, 1918 nec Hübner, 1820 · unaccepted (pre-occupied)
Orientophorus Srivastava, 1935 · unaccepted (synonym)

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  1. Species Faustula basiri Hafeezullah & Siddiqi, 1970
  2. Species Faustula brevichrus (Srivastava, 1935) Yamaguti, 1958
  3. Species Faustula clupeae (Srivastava, 1935) Yamaguti, 1958
  4. Species Faustula gangetica (Srivastava, 1935) Yamaguti, 1958
  5. Species Faustula keksooni (MacCallum, 1918) Poche, 1926
  6. Species Faustula chauhani Gupta & Srivastava, 1960 accepted as Faustula brevichrus (Srivastava, 1935) Yamaguti, 1958 (synonym according to Simha, 1974)
  7. Species Faustula gasterostei Schell, 1973 accepted as Schellitrema gasterostei (Schell, 1973) Dronen, Blend, Mohammed & Bannai, 2021 (Superseded combination)
  8. Species Faustula hilsai Kumar & Agarwal, 1985 accepted as Lingulitrema hilsai (Kumar & Agarwal, 1985) Dronen, Blend, Mohammed & Bannai, 2021 (pre-occupied)
  9. Species Faustula hilsai Rizvi, 1971 accepted as Faustula basiri Hafeezullah & Siddiqi, 1970 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  10. Species Faustula ilishii (Srivastava, 1935) Yamaguti, 1958 accepted as Faustula gangetica (Srivastava, 1935) Yamaguti, 1958 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  11. Species Faustula indica Agarwal & Verma, 1981 accepted as Varanasifaustula indica (Agarwal & Verma, 1981) Dronen, Blend, Mohammed & Bannai, 2021 (Superseded combination)
  12. Species Faustula karounensis (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
  13. Species Faustula makundai Agarwal & Verma, 1981 accepted as Gangafaustula makundai (Agrawal & Verma, 1981) Dronen, Blend, Mohammed & Bannai, 2021 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  14. Species Faustula mandapamensis Simha, 1974 accepted as Faustula gangetica (Srivastava, 1935) Yamaguti, 1958 (synonym according to Hafeezullah & Dutta, 1998)
  15. Species Faustula pyriformis Kumar & Agarwal, 1985 accepted as Pronoprymna pyriformis (Kumar & Agarwal, 1985) Dronen, Blend, Mohammed & Bannai, 2021 (Superseded combination)
  16. Species Faustula qikouensis Qiu & Li in Shen & Qiu, 1995 accepted as Gobifaustula qikouensis (Qiu & Li in Shen & Qiu, 1995) Dronen, Blend, Mohammed & Bannai, 2021 (Superseded combination)
  17. Species Faustula rahemii Al-Daraji, 2004 accepted as Faustula basiri Hafeezullah & Siddiqi, 1970 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  18. Species Faustula sayori (Yamaguti, 1942) Yamaguti, 1958 accepted as Pronoprymna sayori (Yamaguti, 1942) Dronen, Blend, Mohammed & Bannai, 2021 (Synonym)
  19. Species Faustula varanasiensis Agarwal & Kumar, 1977 accepted as Bacciger varanasiensis (Agarwal & Kumar, 1977) Dronen, Blend, Mohammed & Bannai, 2021 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh
feminine
Poche, F. (1926). Das System der Platodaria. <em>Archiv für naturgeschichte. Abteilung A.</em> 91: 1-458.
page(s): 120; note: = Eurtema MacCallum, pre-occupied [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
WoRMS (2026). Faustula Poche, 1926. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=725451 on 2026-10-05
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2013-04-16 08:23:45Z
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Boxshall, Geoff
2014-07-24 11:43:02Z
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Gibson, David
2019-07-26 11:51:13Z
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Gibson, David

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Nomenclature

original description Poche, F. (1926). Das System der Platodaria. <em>Archiv für naturgeschichte. Abteilung A.</em> 91: 1-458.
page(s): 120; note: = Eurtema MacCallum, pre-occupied [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Eurema MacCallum, 1918 nec Hübner, 1820) MacCallum, G.A. (1919). Notes on the genus Telorchis and other trematodes. <em>Zoopathologica.</em> 1 (3, 1918): 81-98.
page(s): 86 [details] 

original description (of Orientophorus Srivastava, 1935) Srivastava, H. D. (1935). New parasites of the genus Orientophorus, n. gen. (family Fellodistomidae) from an Indian fresh-water fish, Clupea ilisha. <em>Parasitology.</em> 27: 374-382., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182000015298
page(s): 374 [details] 

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Dronen, N. O.; Blend, C. K.; Mohammed, E. T.; Bannai, M. (2021). Reconsideration of the species assigned to Faustula Poche, 1926 (Digenea: Microphalloidea) with the proposal of five new genera in the Faustulidae Poche, 1926. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5027(2): 231-253., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5027.2.5 [details] 

taxonomy source Sokolov, S. G.; Ali, A. H.; Adday, T. K.; Othman, N. H.; Vlasenkov, S. A. (2025). Molecular data on the genus Faustula Poche, 1925 (Trematoda: Faustulidae) resolves a 100-year taxonomic intrigue. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5673(3): 385-398., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5673.3.3 [details] 

redescription Dronen, N. O.; Blend, C. K.; Mohammed, E. T.; Bannai, M. (2021). Reconsideration of the species assigned to Faustula Poche, 1926 (Digenea: Microphalloidea) with the proposal of five new genera in the Faustulidae Poche, 1926. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5027(2): 231-253., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5027.2.5 [details] 

Identification resource

identification resource Bray, R. A. (2008). Family Faustulidae Poche, 1926. In: Bray, R. A.; Gibson, D. I.; Jones, A. (Eds). <em>Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 3.</em> Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 509–522., available online at https://doi.org/10.1079/9780851995885.0509
page(s): 516 [details] 

identification resource Dronen, N. O.; Blend, C. K.; Mohammed, E. T.; Bannai, M. (2021). Reconsideration of the species assigned to Faustula Poche, 1926 (Digenea: Microphalloidea) with the proposal of five new genera in the Faustulidae Poche, 1926. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5027(2): 231-253., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5027.2.5 [details] 

identification resource Skrjabin, K. I. (1959). Order Faustulida (Poche, 1925) Skrjabin et Schulz, 1937. Family Faustulidae Poche, 1925. <em>Osnovy Trematodologii.</em> 16, 6–12. (In Russian).
page(s): 11 [details] 

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eurema) (from synonym Eurema MacCallum, 1918 nec Hübner, 1820)
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