MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Botulus Guiart, 1938

WoRMS taxon details

Botulus Guiart, 1938

AphiaID

108766 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:108766)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Botulus alepidosauri Guiart, 1938 accepted as Botulus microporus (Monticelli, 1889) Gibson & Bray, 1977 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Hirudinellidae Dollfus, 1932

Synonymised names

Mediolecithus Oshmarin, 1968 · unaccepted (synonym)

Profundiella Skrjabin, 1958 · unaccepted (synonym)

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Species Botulus microporus (Monticelli, 1889) Gibson & Bray, 1977
Species Botulus alepidosauri Guiart, 1938 accepted as Botulus microporus (Monticelli, 1889) Gibson & Bray, 1977 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Botulus alepisauri (Parukhin & Nikolaeva, 1967) Parukhin & Nikolaeva, 1974 accepted as Botulus microporus (Monticelli, 1889) Gibson & Bray, 1977 (synonym)
Species Botulus cablei Stunkard, 1965 accepted as Botulus microporus (Monticelli, 1889) Gibson & Bray, 1977 (synonym)
Species Botulus skrjabini (Skrjabin, 1958) Parukhin & Nikolaeva, 1974 accepted as Botulus microporus (Monticelli, 1889) Gibson & Bray, 1977 (synonym)

Environment

marine

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Guiart, J. (1938). Trématodes parasites provenant des Campagnes scientifiques du Prince Albert Ier de Monaco (1886-1912). Résultats Campagnes Scient. Albert 1er Prince Monaco. 99: 1-84.
page(s): 4, 26 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in North West Pacific

type locality contained in North West Pacific [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Botulus Guiart, 1938. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=108766 on 2025-05-24

Taxonomic edit history

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Gibson, David

2013-10-01 05:42:52Z

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Gibson, David

2019-07-30 11:08:52Z

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Gibson, David

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Nomenclature

original description Guiart, J. (1938). Trématodes parasites provenant des Campagnes scientifiques du Prince Albert Ier de Monaco (1886-1912). Résultats Campagnes Scient. Albert 1er Prince Monaco. 99: 1-84.
page(s): 4, 26 [details]

original description (of Mediolecithus Oshmarin, 1968) Oshmarin, P. G. (1968). New family of trematode from Lamna cornubica - Mediolecithus pacificus nov. fam. Papers on helminthology presented to Academician K.I. Skrjabin on his 90th birthday. :272-274.
page(s): 272 [details]

original description (of Profundiella Skrjabin, 1958) Skrjabin, A. S. (1958). On the helminths of the deep-sea fish Alepisaurus aesculapius. In Skrjabin, A. S. (Ed.). Papers on Helminthology presented to K. I. Skrjabin on his 80th Birthday. Moscow: 340–344.
page(s): 340 [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]

Identification resource

identification resource Gibson, D. I.; Bray, R. A. (1979). The Hemiuroidea: terminology, systematics and evolution. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 36: 35-146., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.3604
page(s): 99 [details]

identification resource Gibson D. I. (2002). Family Hirudinellidae Dollfus, 1932. In: Gibson, D. I., Jones, A. & Bray, R. A. (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 1. Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 375–378.
page(s): 377 [details]

identification resource Skrjabin, K. I. (1960). Family Botulidae Guiart, 1938. Osnovy Trematodologii. 17: 38–41. (In Russian).
page(s): 39 [details]

Other

additional source 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.
page(s): 208; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details]

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