MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Opisthorchis Blanchard, 1895

WoRMS taxon details

Opisthorchis Blanchard, 1895

AphiaID

108622 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:108622)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Distomum felineum Rivolta, 1884 accepted as Opisthorchis felineus (Rivolta, 1884) Blanchard, 1895 (type by original designation)

Parent

Opisthorchiinae Looss, 1899

Synonymised names

Hepatiarius Feizullaev, 1961 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Neometorchis Bilqees, Shabbir & Parveen, 2003 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Notaulus Skrjabin, 1913 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Species Opisthorchis felineus (Rivolta, 1884) Blanchard, 1895
Species Opisthorchis geminus (Looss, 1896) Looss, 1899
Species Opisthorchis tenuicollis (Rudolphi, 1819) Stiles & Hassall, 1896
Species Opisthorchis gomtii Mehra, 1941 accepted as Gomtia piscicola Thapar, 1930 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Opisthorchis lancea (Diesing, 1850) accepted as Amphimerus lancea (Diesing, 1850) Barker, 1911 (Superseded combination)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Blanchard, R. A. E. (1895). Animaux parasites [Preliminary notice]. Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France. 20 (8-9): 217.
page(s): 217 [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Opisthorchis Blanchard, 1895. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=108622 on 2025-06-02

Taxonomic edit history

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Gibson, David

2006-09-26 06:56:50Z

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Martinez, Olga

2014-01-20 09:24:57Z

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Gibson, David

2019-08-12 14:11:23Z

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Gibson, David

2021-04-20 13:34:58Z

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Bray, Rod

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Nomenclature

original description Blanchard, R. A. E. (1895). Animaux parasites [Preliminary notice]. Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France. 20 (8-9): 217.
page(s): 217 [details]

original description (of Hepatiarius Feizullaev, 1961) Feizullaev, N. A. (1961). Hepatiarius n.g., n.sp., a new trematode genus of Opisthorchidae Braun, 1901. Doklady Akademii Nauk Azerbaidzhanskoi SSR. 17 (7): 635–640. (In Russian).
page(s): 635 [details]

original description (of Notaulus Skrjabin, 1913) Skrjabin, K. I. (1913). Vogeltrematoden aus Russisch Turkestan. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abt. Syst. 35 (3): 351–388.
page(s): 375 [details]

original description (of Neometorchis Bilqees, Shabbir & Parveen, 2003) Bilqees, F. M., Shabbir, I,, Parveen, S. (2003). Neometorchis lobatum gen. n. sp. n.(Trematoda: Opisthorchiidae, Metorchinae) from the bird Anas sp. from Kalri Lake, Sindh. Proceedings of Parasitology. 36: 7–12.
page(s): 9 [details]

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 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Tatonova, Y. V.; Besprozvannykh, V. V. (2019). Description of a new species, Cryptocotyle lata sp. nov., and discussion of the phylogenetic relationships in Opisthorchioidea. Parasitology International. 101939., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parint.2019.101939 [details]

Identification resource

identification resource Scholz, T. (2008). Family Opisthorchiidae Looss, 1899. In: Bray, R. A.; Gibson, D. I.; Jones, A. (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda. Vol. 3. Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 9–49.
page(s): 35 [details]

identification resource Skrjabin, K. I.; Petrov, A. M. (1950). Superfamily Opisthorchoidea Faust, 1929. Osnovy Trematodologii. 4: 81–328. (In Russian).
page(s): 89 [details]

Other

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

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. [details]

Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Opisthorchis)
To Genbank (from synonym Neometorchis Bilqees, Shabbir & Parveen, 2003)
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