Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Hemiurata > Superfamily Azygioidea > Family Azygiidae > Subfamily Azygiinae

Otodistomum Stafford, 1904

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Otodistomum cestoides (Van Beneden, 1870) Odhner, 1911
Otodistomum plunketi Fyfe, 1953
Otodistomum veliporum (Creplin, 1837) Stafford, 1904

Literature

original description

Stafford, J. (1904). Trematodes from Canadian fishes. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 27: 481–495.

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

Gibson, D. I. & Bray, R. A. 1977. The Azygiidae, Hirudinellidae, Ptychogonimidae, Sclerodistomidae and Syncoeliidae of fishes from the north-east Atlantic. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoology) 32: 167–245.

additional source

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

additional source

Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.

identification resource

Skrjabin, K. I., Guschanskaja, L. H. (1958). Suborder Azygiata La Rue, 1957. Osnovy Trematodologii. 14, 667-819. (In Russian).

identification resource

Gibson, D. I.; Bray, R. A. (1979). The Hemiuroidea: terminology, systematics and evolution. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 36: 35-146.

identification resource

Gibson, D. I. (2002). Superfamily Azygioidea Lühe, 1909. In: Gibson, D.I., Jones, A. & Bray, R.A. [Eds]. Keys to the Trematoda. Vol. 1. Wallingford: CAB International. pp. 19–24.

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Otodistomum Stafford, 1904. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=108720

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Occurrence

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