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 > Genus Otodistomum

Otodistomum veliporum (Creplin, 1837) Stafford, 1904

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Otodistomum*	Stafford, 1904	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Distoma veliporum*	Creplin, 1837	synonym

Literature

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. (1996) Guide to the parasites of Canadian fishes. Part IV. Trematoda. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 373 pp.
additional source	Brinkmann, A. (1975). Trematodes from Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland. 205(2): 1-88.
additional source	Braten, T. (1964). Otodistomum veliporum (Creplin, 1837) (Trematoda, Azygiidae) i Norge. Fauna, Oslo. 17: 73–75.
additional source	Johns, P.; Newman, L.J.; Holleman, J.J.; Dawson, E.W.; Sterrer, W.; Allison, F.R.; Diggles, B.K.; Andrews, J.R.H.; Hine, P.M.; McKenna, P.B.; Poulin, R. (2009). Phylum Platyhelminthes: flatworms, tapeworms, flukes, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 102-128.
additional source	Kohn, A.; Fernandes, B.M.M.; Cohen, S.C. (2007). South American trematode parasites of fishes. CNPq, FIOCRUZ. 318 pp.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Ronald, K. (1960). The metazoan parasites of the Heterosomata of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. VI. Digrenea. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 38: 923–937.
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.
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	Tendeiro, J., Valdez, V. (1955). Helmintologia ictiológica II. Sobre os helmintos de alguns peixes da costa portuguesa. Boletim de Cultura da Guiné Portuguesa. 10: 81–127.
redescription	Lebour, M. (1908). Fish trematodes of the Northumberland coast. Report on the Scientific Investigations. Northumberland Sea Fisheries Committee. (1907), 23-67.
redescription	Caballero y C., E., Caballero R., G. (1969). Études des trématodes récoltés par Howard A. Winter chez les poissons marins de l'Océan Pacifique du Mexique et des États Unis. II. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. 26(4): 957-963.
redescription	Knoff, M., Clemente, S. C.de S., Pinto, R. M., Gomes, D. C. (2001). Digenea and Acanthocephala of elasmobranch fishes from the southern coast of Brazil. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. 96 (8):1095–1101.
redescription	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.
redescription	Stafford, J. (1904). Trematodes from Canadian fishes. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 27: 481–495.
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	Odhner, T. (1911). Zum natürlichen system der digenen Trematoden. IV. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 38, 513–531.
redescription	Rees, G. (1953). Some parasitic worms from fishes off the coast of Iceland. II. Trematoda (Digenea). Parasitology. 43: 15-26.
redescription	Skrjabin, K. I., Guschanskaja, L. H. (1958). Suborder Azygiata La Rue, 1957. Osnovy Trematodologii. 14, 667-819. (In Russian).
redescription	Curran, S.S.; Overstreet, R.M. (2000). Syncoelium vermilionensis sp. n., (Hemiuroidea: Syncoeliidae) and New Records for Members of Azygiidae, Ptychogonimidae, and Syncoeliidae Parasitizing Elasmobranchs in the Gulf of California. Faculty Publications from the Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology. Paper 440, p. 117-133.
redescription	Dawes, B. (1947). The Trematoda of British Fishes. Ray Society, London. 364 pp.
new combination reference	Stafford, J. (1904). Trematodes from Canadian fishes. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 27: 481–495.
biology source	Sperone, E.; Milazzo, C. (2018). On the occurrence of the digenean Otodistomum veliporum in the spiracle of the kitefin shark Dalatias licha. Acta Adriatica. 59 (1): 137–140.