MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Opechona Looss, 1907

ERMS taxon details

Opechona Looss, 1907

AphiaID

108577 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:108577)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Lepocreadiidae Odhner, 1905

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Species Opechona bacillaris (Molin, 1859) Dollfus, 1927
Species Opechona retractilis (Lebour, 1908) Yamaguti, 1954 accepted as Opechona bacillaris (Molin, 1859) Dollfus, 1927 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Environment

marine, brackish

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Looss, A. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Distomenfamilie Hemiuridae. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 31, 585–620.
page(s): 616 [details]

Taxonomic citation

ERMS (2025). Opechona Looss, 1907. Accessed at: http://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=108577 on 2026-03-16

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Opechona Looss, 1907. Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=108577 on 2026-03-16

Taxonomic edit history

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Gibson, David

2006-09-26 06:56:50Z

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Martinez, Olga

2013-11-19 06:59:03Z

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Gibson, David

2018-12-12 14:28:22Z

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Bray, Rod

2019-03-01 13:00:05Z

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Gibson, David

2019-05-06 14:25:35Z

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Gibson, David

2024-11-10 13:39:16Z

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Gibson, David

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original description Looss, A. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Distomenfamilie Hemiuridae. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 31, 585–620.
page(s): 616 [details]

context source (PeRMS) Luque, J.L., C. Cruces, J. Chero, F. Paschoal, P.V. Alves, A.C. Silva, L. Sanchez & J. Iannacone. (2016). Lista de verificación de los metazoos parásitos de peces de Perú. [Checklist of metazoan parasites of fishes from Peru.]. Neotropical Helminthology. 10(2):301-375., available online at https://doi.org/10.24039/rnh2016102751 [details] Available for editors

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 RoR) [details]

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

additional source 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. Systematic Parasitology. 15: 159-202., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00010135
page(s): 165; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details]

additional source Cribb, T. H.; Cutmore, S. C.; Wee, N. Q.-X.; Browne, J. G.; Morales, P. D.; Pitt, K. A. (2024). Lepocreadiidae (Trematoda) associated with gelatinous zooplankton (Cnidaria and Ctenophora) and fishes in Australian and Japanese waters. Parasitology International. 102890., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parint.2024.102890 [details]

identification resource Skrjabin, K. I., Koval, V. P. (1960). Suborder Allocreadiata Skrjabin, Petrov and Koval, 1958. Part two. Superfamily Lepocreadioidea Cable, 1956. Osnovy Trematodologii. 18, 13-377. (In Russian: English translation (1965) Israel Program for Scientific Translations. Cat. No. 1426, 1967-1272).
page(s): 65 [details]

identification resource Bray, R. A. (2005). Family Lepocreadiidae Odhner, 1905. In: Jones, A., Bray,. R.A., Gibson, D.I. (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 2. CABI Publishing and the Natural History Museum, Wallingford, 545–602., available online at https://doi.org/10.1079/9780851995878.0545
page(s): 583 [details]

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