Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Haploporata > Superfamily Haploporoidea > Family Haploporidae > Subfamily Haploporinae > Genus Saccocoelium

Saccocoelium obesum Looss, 1902

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

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Genus group names

SaccocoeliumLooss, 1902accepted genus name

Literature

original description

Looss, A. (1902). Die Distomen-Unterfamilie der Haploporinae. Archives de Parasitologie. 6: 129-143.

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

Kudlai, O.; Scholz,T.; Smit, N. (2018). Trematoda. In: Scholz,T.; Vanhove, M. P. M.; Smit, N.; Jayasundera, Z. & Gelnar, M. A Guide to the Parasites of African Freshwater Fishes. CEBioS, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels. pp. 245-268.

additional source

Mikailov, T.K. (1958). Parazitnofauna kefali Kaspiiskogo morya. Parasitofauna of Mugil saliens Risso of the Caspian Sea. [Parasite fauna of the Caspian Sea mullet. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 37(3):373-378. (12-iii-1958, Russian with English summary).

additional source

Radujkovic, B.; Sundic, D. (2014). Parasitic flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea, Digenea, Cestoda) of fishes from the Adriatic Sea. Natura Montenegrina. 13 (1):7–280.

additional source

Blasco-Costa, I.; Balbuena, J. A.; Raga, J. A.; Kostadinova, A.; Olson, P. D. (2010). Molecules and morphology reveal cryptic variation among digeneans infecting sympatric mullets in the Mediterranean. Parasitology. 137(02): 287-302.

additional source

Ragias, V., Athanassopoulou, F. & Sinis, A. (2005). Parasites of Mugilidae spp. reared under semi-intensive and intensive conditions in Greece. Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists 25 107-115

redescription

Fares, A., Maillard, C. (1974). Recherches sur quelques Haploporidae (Trematoda) parasites des muges de Méditerranée Occidentale: systématique et cycles évolutifs. Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde. 45 (1): 11–43.

redescription

Semenova, N. N., Ivanov, V. P., Ivanov, V. M. (2007). Parasitic fauna and diseases of fishes of the Caspian Sea. Astrakhan: ASTU Press, 559 pp. (In Russian).

redescription

Fischthal, J. H., Kuntz, R. E. (1963). Trematode parasites of fishes from Egypt. Part V. Annotated record of some previously described forms. Journal of Parasitology. 49 (1): 91-98.

redescription

Lozano, C., Ubeda, J. M., De Rojas, M., Ariza, C., Guevara, D. C. (2001). Estudio de digénidos de peces marinos del sur de la Península Ibérica. Research and Reviews in Parasitology. 61: 103–116.

redescription

Dawes, B. (1947). The Trematoda of British Fishes. Ray Society, London. 364 pp.

redescription

Gaevskaya, A. V., Dmitrieva, E. V. (1993). Trematodes from the genus Saccocoelium, parasites of fish in the Black Sea. Vestnik Zoologii. (1): 75–78. (In Russian).

redescription

Skrjabin, K. I. (1956). Family Haploporidae Nicoll, 1914. Osnovy Trematodologii. 12: 6-49.

redescription

Radujković, B.M., Orecchia, P., Paggi, L. (1989). Parasites des poissons marin du Montenegro: digènes. Acta Adriatica. 30(1-2): 137-187.

redescription

Greze, V. N., Delyamure, S. L. & Nikolaeva, V. M. (Eds.). (1975). Key to the parasites of vertebrates of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 551 pp. (In Russian).

redescription

Ferretti, G., Paggi, L. (1965). Ridescrizione di Saccocoelium obesum Looss, 1902 (Sin. Saccocoelium tensum Looss, 1902) trematode parassita di Mugil cephalus. Rivista di Parassitologia. 26: 229–239.

redescription

Oguz, M.C., Bray, R.A. (2006). Digenetic trematodes of some teleost fish off the Mudanya Coast (Sea of Marmara, Bursa, Turkey). Helminthologia. 43, 161-167.

redescription

Blasco-Costa, I.; Montero, F.E.; Gibson, D.I.; Balbuena, J.A.; Raga, J.A.; Kostadinova, A. (2009). A revision of the Haploporinae Nicoll, 1914 (Digenea: Haploporidae) from mullets (Mugilidae): Saccocoelium Looss, 1902. Systematic Parasitology, 72(3), 159-186.

biology source

Bartoli, P.; Gibson, D. I. (2007). Synopsis of the life cycles of Digenea (Platyhelminthes) from lagoons of the northern coast of the western Mediterranean. Journal of Natural History. 41 (25-28): 1553–1570.

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Saccocoelium obesum Looss, 1902. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=108817

Dr. David Gibson. Saccocoelium obesum Looss, 1902. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/98dc1554-f28f-4290-863b-52a91e84997b

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Occurrence

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