MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Otodistomum plunketi Fyfe, 1953

MSBIAS taxon details

Otodistomum plunketi Fyfe, 1953

AphiaID

109255 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:109255)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Otodistomum Stafford, 1904

Original name

Otodistomum plunketi Fyfe, 1953

Environment

marine

Original description

Fyfe, M. L. (1953). Otodistomum plunketi n.sp., a large trematode from a Lord Plunket's shark, Scymnodon plunketi (Waite). Parasitology. 43 (3-4): 187-190., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182000018503
page(s): 187 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MSBIAS (2025). Otodistomum plunketi Fyfe, 1953. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=109255 on 2025-06-01

Regional species database citation

The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2025). Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Otodistomum plunketi Fyfe, 1953. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=109255 on 2025-06-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gibson, David

2007-12-14 10:13:14Z

changed

Appeltans, Ward

2012-10-19 18:31:08Z

checked

Gibson, David

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original description Fyfe, M. L. (1953). Otodistomum plunketi n.sp., a large trematode from a Lord Plunket's shark, Scymnodon plunketi (Waite). Parasitology. 43 (3-4): 187-190., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182000018503
page(s): 187 [details]

context source (Deepsea) Natural History Museum, London (NHM): Collections Management Database System. [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]

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]

additional source Kohn, A.; Fernandes, B.M.M.; Cohen, S.C. (2007). South American trematode parasites of fishes. CNPq, FIOCRUZ. 318 pp. [details]

redescription Shvetsova, L. S. (1994). Trematodes of cartilaginous fishes of the Pacific Ocean. Izvestiya Tikhookeanskogo Nauchno-Issledovatel'skogo Instituta Rybnogo Khozyaistva i Okeanografii. 117: 46–64. (In Russian).
page(s): 53 [details]

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.
page(s): 192 [details]

redescription Wang, P.-q., Wang, Y.-y. (1993). Some digenetic trematodes of marine fishes from Fujian Province. Journal of Fujian Normal University, Natural Science. 9, 66–73. (In Chinese).
page(s): 69 [details]

redescription Skrjabin, K. I., Guschanskaja, L. H. (1958). Suborder Azygiata La Rue, 1957. Osnovy Trematodologii. 14, 667-819. (In Russian).
page(s): 751 [details]

biology source Brickle, P.; Pompert, J.; Poulding, D. (2002). The occurrence of Otodistomum plunketi Fyfe, 1953 (Digenea: Azygiidae), in rays (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae) around the Falkland Islands. Comparative Parasitology. 69 (1): 86–89., available online at https://doi.org/10.1654/1525-2647(2002)069[0086:tooopf]2.0.co;2
page(s): 88 [details]

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