Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Gymnophallata > Superfamily Gymnophalloidea > Family Baccigeridae > Subfamily Baccigerinae

Bacciger Nicoll, 1914

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Bacciger bacciger (Rudolphi, 1819) Nicoll, 1914
Bacciger grandispinatus Naidenova, 1970
Bacciger israelensis Fischthal, 1980
Bacciger minutus Gaevskaja & Naidenova, 1996

Literature

original description

Nicoll, W. (1914). The trematode parasites of fishes from the English Channel. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 10(03): 466-505.

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

Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].

taxonomy source

Curran, S. S.; Warren, M. B.; Bullard, S. A. (2022). Description of a New Species of Bacciger (Digenea: Gymnophalloidea) Infecting the American Gizzard Shad, Dorosoma cepedianum (Lesueur, 1818), and Molecular Characterization of Cercaria rangiae Wardle, 1983, with Molecular Phylogeny of Related Digenea. Comparative Parasitology. 89(1).

identification resource

Margolis, L., Ching, H. L. (1965). Review of the trematode genera Bacciger and Pentagramma (Fellodistomidae) and description of P. petrowi (Layman, 1930) n. comb. from marine fishes from the Pacific Coast of Canada. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 43, 381–405.

identification resource

Bray, R. A. (2008). Family Faustulidae Poche, 1926. In: Bray, R. A.; Gibson, D. I.; Jones, A. (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 3. Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 509–522.

identification resource

Skrjabin, K. I., Koval, V. P. (1957). Family Fellodistomatidae Nicoll, 1913. Osnovy Trematodologii. 13: 163-452. (In Russian).

Genbank

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Bacciger Nicoll, 1914. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=108639

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh

Importance

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2022-04-24 by David Gibson

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