Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Hemiurata > Superfamily Hemiuroidea > Family Hirudinellidae > Genus Hirudinella

Hirudinella ventricosa (Pallas, 1774) Baird, 1853

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hirudinella*	de Blainville, 1828	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Fasciola ventricosa*	Pallas, 1774	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	Nikolaeva, V. M., Parukhin, A. M. (1968). To the study of fish helminths in the Gulf of Mexico, in: Jankovskaya, E.B. (Ed.),. Explorations of Central American Seas. Kiev, Naukova Dumka, pp. 126–149. (In Russian).
additional source	Nashad, M., S.P. Varghese, K.K. Bineesh, A.A. Mohamed Hatha, S. Rajendran & L. Ramalingam. (2019). Novel report of three parasites of wahoo, Acanthocybium solandri (Cuvier, 1832) from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India. 61(1): 61-65.
additional source	Pérez-Ponce de León, G.; Hernández-Mena, D. (2019). Testing the higher-level phylogenetic classification of Digenea (Platyhelminthes, Trematoda) based on nuclear rDNA sequences before entering the age of the 'next-generation' Tree of Life. Journal of Helminthology. 93 (3): 260–276.
additional source	Iversen, E.S. and Hoven, E.E.,. (1958). Some trematodes of fishes from the central equatorial Pacific. Pacific Science. 12: 131–134.
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additional source	Zenetos, A., S. Gofas, M. Verlaque, M. Cinar, J. Garcia Raso, C. Bianchi, C. Morri, E. Azzurro, M. Bilecenoglu, C. Froglia, I. Siokou, D. Violanti, A. Sfriso, G. San Martin, A. Giangrande, T. Katagan, E. Ballesteros, A. Ramos-Espla, F. Mastrototaro, O. Ocana, A. Zingone, M,. Gambi & N. Streftaris. (2010). Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea by 2010. A contribution to the application of European Union's Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Part I. Spatial distribution. Mediterranean Marine Science. 11(2): 381-493.
additional source	Fischthal, J. H., Thomas, J. D. (1968). Digenetic trematodes of some freshwater and marine fishes from Ghana. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington. 35 (2), 126-140.
additional source	Murugesh, M.; Madhavi, R. (1990). Egg and miracidium of Hirudinella ventricosa (Trematoda: Hirudinellidae). Journal of Parasitology. 76 (5): 748–749.
redescription	Kohn, A., Santos, A. L. dos, Cohen, S. C. (2003). Report of two parasites from Brazilian tunas. Arquivos de Ciencias do Mar. 36:19–22.
redescription	Madhavi, R., Bray, R. A. (2018). Digenetic Trematodes of Indian Marine Fishes. Springer, Dordrecht, 693 pp.
redescription	Williams, E.H., Jr. & L. Bunkley-Williams. (1996). Parasites of offshore big game fishes of Puerto Rico and the western Atlantic. Department of Natural and Environmental Resources & University of Puerto Rico, San Juan & Mayaguez 382pp.
redescription	León-Règagnon, V., Pérez-Ponce de León, G., Lamothe-Argumedo, R. (1997). Hemiuriformes de peces marinos de la Bahia de Chamela, Mexico, con la descripcion de una nueva especie del genero Hysterolecitha (Digenea: Hemiuridae: Lecithasterinae). Anales del Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Series Zoología). 66 (1): 1-34.
redescription	Nigrelli, R. F.; Stunkard, H. W. (1947). Studies on tho genus Hirudinella, giant trematodes of Scombriform fishes. Zoologica New York. 31: 185–196.
redescription	Manter, H.W. (1947). The digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of Tortugas. American Midland Naturalist. 38, 257–416.
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	Fernandes, B. M. M.; Kohn, A. (1984). Report of Lepocreadium bimarium Manter, 1940, Vitellibaculum spinosa (Siddioi & Cable, 1960) and Hirudinella ventricosa (Pallas, 1774), parasites of marine fishes in Brazil. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. 79 (4): 507–508.
redescription	Rees, G. (1970). Some helminth parasites of fishes of Bermuda and an account of the attachment organ of Alcicornis carangis MacCallum, 1917 (Digenea: Bucephalidae). Parasitology, 60: 195-221
redescription	Yanagi, S.; Mekata, T.; Imaoka, Y.; Ogawa, K. (2022). Digenean larva migrans in cultured Seriola spp. caused by Hirudinella ventricosa (Trematoda: Hirudinellidae). Fish Pathology. 57 (3): 76–82.
redescription	Velez, E. I. (1987). Sobre la fauna de trematodos en peces marinos de la familia Lutjanidae en el mar Caribe. Actualidades Biologicas. 16: 70–84.
redescription	Gibson, D.I. (1976). Monogenea and Digenea from fishes. Discovery Reports. 36, 179-266.
redescription	Siddiqi, A. H., & Cable, R. M. (1960). Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of Puerto Rico. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. 17(3): 257-369.
redescription	Calhoun, D. M., Curran, S. C., Pulis, E. E., Provaznik, J. M. & Franks, J. S. (2013) Hirudinella ventricosa (Pallas, 1774) Baird, 1853 represents a species complex based on ribosomal DNA. Systematic Parasitology, 86, 197–208.
redescription	Skrjabin, K. I., Guschanskaja, L H. (1957). Additions to Suborder Hemiurata (Markevitsch, 1951) Skrjabin et Guschanskaja, 1954. Osnovy Trematodologii. 13, 601–779. (In Russian).
new combination reference	Baird, [W.]. (1853). Catalogue of the Species of Entozoa, or Intestinal worms, Contained in the Collection of the British Museum. London: British Museum. 1-132, pls. 1, 2.
biology source	Raja, K., B.A. Venmathi Maran, A. Gopalakrishnan, A. Saravanakumar, R. Vijayakumar & K. Sinduja (2014). Infestation of Lernaeenicus seeri (Copepoda: Pennellidae) and Hirudinella ventricosa (Digenea: Hirudinellidae) on wahoo Acanthocybium solandri collected from Parangipettai, southeast coast of India. Tropical Biomedicine. 31(3):477-486.