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Pseudodiscogasteroides Gupta, 1955

AphiaID

725724 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:725724)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (synonym according to Anderson, Cribb & Bray, 1999)

Accepted name

Paradiscogaster Yamaguti, 1934

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Pseudodiscogasteroides indicus (Srivastava, 1939) Gupta, 1955 accepted as Paradiscogaster indicus (Srivastava, 1939) Cribb, Anderson & Bray, 1999 (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Faustulidae Poche, 1926

Direct children (4)

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Species Pseudodiscogasteroides aluteri (Machida, 1972) Machida & Kuramochi, 1999 accepted as Paradiscogaster aluteri Machida, 1972 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Pseudodiscogasteroides australiensis (Kurochkin, 1970) Madhavi, 1975 accepted as Trigonocryptus australiensis (Kurochkin, 1970) Cribb, Anderson & Bray, 1999 (superseded combination)
Species Pseudodiscogasteroides caranxi (Srivastava, 1939) Gupta, 1955 accepted as Paradiscogaster indicus (Srivastava, 1939) Cribb, Anderson & Bray, 1999 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, according to Madhavi (1975))
Species Pseudodiscogasteroides indicus (Srivastava, 1939) Gupta, 1955 accepted as Paradiscogaster indicus (Srivastava, 1939) Cribb, Anderson & Bray, 1999 (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

marine

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Gupta, S. P. (1955). Trematode parasites of fresh-water fishes. Indian Journal of Helminthology. 5 (1 1953), 1-80.
page(s): 19 [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2026). Pseudodiscogasteroides Gupta, 1955. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=725724 on 2026-08-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2013-04-16 08:45:52Z

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Boxshall, Geoff

2014-07-25 06:05:02Z

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Gibson, David

2020-05-27 08:56:57Z

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Bray, Rod

2026-08-23 13:52:34Z

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Gibson, David

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Nomenclature

original description Gupta, S. P. (1955). Trematode parasites of fresh-water fishes. Indian Journal of Helminthology. 5 (1 1953), 1-80.
page(s): 19 [details]

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Cribb, T. H.; Anderson, G.; Bray, R. A. (1999). Faustulid trematodes (Digenea) from marine fishes of Australia. Systematic Parasitology. 44(2): 119-138., available online at https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1006248418404 [details] Available for editors

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Identification resource

identification resource Skrjabin, K. I., Koval, V. P. (1957). Family Fellodistomatidae Nicoll, 1913. Osnovy Trematodologii. 13: 163-452. (In Russian).
page(s): 332 [details]

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