Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Lepocreadiata > Superfamily Lepocreadioidea > Family Lepocreadiidae

Opechona Looss, 1907

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pharyngora*	Lebour, 1908	synonym

Children

Opechona bacillaris (Molin, 1859) Dollfus, 1927

Literature

original description	Looss, A. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Distomenfamilie Hemiuridae. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 31, 585–620.
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
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.
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.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
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).
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.