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

Opisthadena dimidia Linton, 1910

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Opisthadena*	Linton, 1910	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Opisthadena kyphosi*	Yamaguti, 1970	synonym

Literature

original description	Linton, E. (1910). Helminth fauna of the Dry Tortugas. II. Trematodes. Papers from the Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institute of Washington. 4: 11–98.
basis of record	Overstreet, R. M., J. O. Cook, and R. W. Heard. 2009. Trematoda (Platyhelminthes) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 419–486 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
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	Léon-Regagnon, V.; Pérez-Ponce de León, G.; Garcia-Prieto, L. (1997). Description of Heteroplectanum oliveri sp. n.(Monogenea: Diplectanidae) and comments on the helminth fauna of Kyphosus elegans (Perciformes: Kyphosidae) from Chamela Bay, México. Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington. 64: 9-16.
additional source	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.
additional source	Gibson, D.I. (1996) Guide to the parasites of Canadian fishes. Part IV. Trematoda. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 373 pp.
additional source	Overstreet, R. M. (1969). Digenetic trematodes of marine teleost fishes from Biscayne Bay, Florida. Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany. 15, 119-176.
redescription	Hassanine, R. M. E.-S. (2000). On two digenetic trematodes (Family: Hemiuridae Looss, 1899) from some fish in the Gulf of Aqaba, with a discussion on the validity of their genera. Journal of the Egyptian German Society of Zoology. 33(D), Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology, 45–55.
redescription	Manter, H.W. (1947). The digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of Tortugas. American Midland Naturalist. 38, 257–416.
redescription	Skrjabin, K. I., Guschanskaja, L. H. (1955). Suborder Hemiurata (Markevitsch, 1951) Skrjabin et Guschanskaja, 1954. Part 3. Osnovy Trematodologii. 11, 465-748. (In Russian).
redescription	Machida, M. (1980). Hemiurid trematodes of Kyphosus collected around Cape Shionomisaki, Kii Peninsula. Memoirs of the National Science Museum, Tokyo Supplement: No. 13: 113-120.
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	Bray, R. A.; Cribb, T. H. (2002). Observations on the phylogeny of Opisthadena Linton, 1910 and related genera (Hemiuridae: Opisthadeninae) from Australian and French Polynesian waters. Folia Parasitologica. 49(4): 279-290.