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Monascus filiformis (Rudolphi, 1819) Looss, 1907

AphiaID

109206 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:109206)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Typetaxon of

Monascus Looss, 1907

Parent

Monascus Looss, 1907

Original name

Distoma filiforme Rudolphi, 1819

Synonymised names

Distoma filiforme Rudolphi, 1819 · unaccepted (superseded combination)

Haplocladus filiformis (Rudolphi, 1819) Odhner, 1911 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Haplocladus minor Odhner, 1911 · unaccepted (synonym)

Haplocladus orientalis Srivastava, 1941 · unaccepted (synonym according to Bray &...)

synonym according to Bray & Gibson, 1980

Haplocladus typicus Odhner, 1911 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Karachitrema trilobata Bilqees, 1973 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Monascus americanus Amato, 1983 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Monascus chauhani Kumari, 1975 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (according to Bray & Gibson, 1980)

Monascus elongatus Karyakarte & Yadav, 1976 · unaccepted (synonym according to Bray &...)

synonym according to Bray & Gibson, 1980

Monascus mediolongiusculus Ding, 1993 · unaccepted (synonym)

Monascus minor (Odhner, 1911) Dollfus, 1947 · unaccepted (synonym)

Monascus monenteron Looss, 1907 · unaccepted (synonym)

Monascus netoi Travassos, Teixeira de Freitas & Bührnheim, 1965 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Monascus orientalis (Srivastava, 1941) Yamaguti, 1958 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (according to Bray & Gibson, 1980)

Monascus ovilobatus Kumari, 1975 · unaccepted (synonym according to Bray &...)

synonym according to Bray & Gibson, 1980

Monascus trilobatus (Bilqees, 1973) Hafeezullah, 1984 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Monascus typicus (Odhner, 1911) Yamaguti, 1954 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Distoma filiforme Rudolphi, 1819) Rudolphi, C. A. (1819). Entozoorum Synopsis cui Accedunt Mantissa Duplex et Indices Locupletissimi. Berolini: Augusti Rücker. ix + 811 pp., pls. 1-3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9698017
page(s): 112, 411 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Adriatic Sea

type locality contained in Adriatic Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Monascus filiformis (Rudolphi, 1819) Looss, 1907. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=109206 on 2025-03-30

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gibson, David

2019-01-04 14:45:42Z

changed

Bray, Rod

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Monascus americanus Amato, 1983) Amato, J. F. R. (1983). Digenetic trematodes of percoid fishes of Florianopolis, southern Brazil - Fellodistomidae, Monascidae, Diplangidae, Zoogonidae, and Waretrematidae with description of two new species. Revista Brasileira de Biologia. 42(4 1982): 681-699.
page(s): 685 [details]

original description (of Monascus mediolongiusculus Ding, 1993) Ding, X. (1993). Marine fish trematode 3. On a new species of Monascus. Annual Bulletin of the Society of Parasitology Guangdong Province. 14-15, 200.
page(s): 200 [details]

original description (of Monascus monenteron Looss, 1907) Looss, A. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Distomenfamilie Hemiuridae. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 31, 585–620.
page(s): 617; note: nomen nudum? [details]

original description (of Monascus netoi Travassos, Teixeira de Freitas & Bührnheim, 1965) Travassos, L., Teixeira de Freitas, J.F., Bührnheim, P. F. (1965). Trematodeos de peixes do litoral Capixaba: Monascus netoi sp. n. parasita de vento leste. Atas da Sociedade de biologia do Rio de Janeiro. 9: 46-48.
page(s): 46 [details]

original description (of Monascus chauhani Kumari, 1975) Kumari, N. V. (1975). A new species of the genus Monascus Looss, 1907 (Trematoda: Digenea: Fellodistomidae) parasitic on flat fishes. Dr B. S. Chauhan Commemorative Volume. 247-250.
page(s): 248 [details]

original description (of Monascus elongatus Karyakarte & Yadav, 1976) Karyakarte, P. P.; Yadav, B. B. (1976). On a new and a known species of the genus Monascus Looss 1907 (Trematoda: Monascidae) from marine fishes from the west coast of lndia. Marathwada University Journal of Science (Biological Sciences). 15(8): 169-175.
page(s): 169 [details]

original description (of Haplocladus minor Odhner, 1911) Odhner, T. (1911). Zum naturlichen System der digenen Trematoden. III. (Ein weitere Fall von sekundärum Anus). Zoologischer Anzeiger. 38: 97-117.
page(s): 105 [details]

original description (of Haplocladus orientalis Srivastava, 1941) Srivastava, H. D. (1941). New fellodistomids (Trematoda) from Indian fishes. Part iii. A new parasite of the genus Haplocladus Odhner, from an Indian marine fish. Indian Journal of Veterinary Science. 11: 42-44.
page(s): 44 [details]

original description (of Haplocladus typicus Odhner, 1911) Odhner, T. (1911). Zum naturlichen System der digenen Trematoden. III. (Ein weitere Fall von sekundärum Anus). Zoologischer Anzeiger. 38: 97-117.
page(s): 104 [details]

original description (of Karachitrema trilobata Bilqees, 1973) Bilqees, F. M. (1973). Marine fish trematodes of Pakistan. XIII Three new species (Allocreadiidae and Hemiuridae) including a new genus Karachitrema gen. n. Acta Parasitologica Polonica. 21: 327-334.
page(s): 329 [details]

original description (of Distoma filiforme Rudolphi, 1819) Rudolphi, C. A. (1819). Entozoorum Synopsis cui Accedunt Mantissa Duplex et Indices Locupletissimi. Berolini: Augusti Rücker. ix + 811 pp., pls. 1-3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9698017
page(s): 112, 411 [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]

new combination reference Looss, A. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Distomenfamilie Hemiuridae. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 31, 585–620.
page(s): 616; note: combination indicated [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Hafeezullah, M. (1984). On the status of some digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of India. Bulletin of the Zoological Survey of India. 6: 209-218.
page(s): 214 [details]

redescription Nasir, P., Gomez, Y. (1977). Digenetic trematodes from Venezuelan marine fishes. Rivista di Parassitologia. 38, 53-73.
page(s): 70 [details]

redescription Madhavi, R., Bray, R. A. (2018). Digenetic Trematodes of Indian Marine Fishes. Springer, Dordrecht, 693 pp.
page(s): 94 [details]

redescription Nahhas, F. M., Powell, E. C. (1971). Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes from the Floridian northern Gulf of Mexico. Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany. 17, 1–9.
page(s): 2 [details]

redescription Shen, J. W. (1990). Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes from Hainan Island. Beijing: Science Press. 228 pp. (In Chinese).
page(s): 40 [details]

redescription Sey, O.; Nahhas, F. M.; Uch, S.; Vang, C. (2003). Digenetic trematodes from marine fishes off the coast of Kuwait, Arabian Gulf: Fellodistomidae and some smaller families, new host and geographic records. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 49(3): 179-200.
page(s): 186 [details] Available for editors

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redescription Bray, R. A.; Gibson, D. I. (1980). The Fellodistomidae (Digenea) of fishes from the northeast Atlantic. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology. 37(4), 199-293.
page(s): 268 [details]

redescription Radujković, B.M., Orecchia, P., Paggi, L. (1989). Parasites des poissons marin du Montenegro: digènes. Acta Adriatica. 30(1-2): 137-187.
page(s): 152 [details]

redescription Hafeezullah, M., Dutta, I. B. (1998). Digenetic trematodes of fishes. Zoological Survey of India. State Fauna Series: Fauna of West Bengal. Part 11, 133–222.
page(s): 168 [details]

redescription Lozano, C., Ubeda, J. M., De Rojas, M., Ariza, C., Guevara, D. C. (2001). Estudio de digénidos de peces marinos del sur de la Península Ibérica. Research and Reviews in Parasitology. 61: 103–116.
page(s): 113 [details]

redescription Køie, M. (1979). On the morphology and life-history of Monascus [= Haplocladus] filiformis (Rudolphi, 1819) Looss, 1907 and Steringophorus furciger (Olsson, 1868) Odhner, 1905 (Trematoda, Fellodistomidae). Ophelia. 18: 113–132.
page(s): 114 [details]

redescription Wallet, M., Kohn, A. (1987). Trématodes parasites de poissons marins du littoral de Rio de Janeiro, Brésil. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. 82 (1): 21–27.
page(s): 23 [details]

redescription Dollfus, R.-P. (1947). Sur Monascus filiformis (Rudolphi 1819) A. Looss 1907, trématode de l'intestin de Cepola rubescens (L.) en méditerranée. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 22: 319-323., available online at https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/1947225319
page(s): 320 [details]

redescription Oguz, M.C., Bray, R.A. (2006). Digenetic trematodes of some teleost fish off the Mudanya Coast (Sea of Marmara, Bursa, Turkey). Helminthologia. 43, 161-167.
page(s): 164 [details]

redescription Diaz Briz, L. M.; Martorelli, S. R.; Genzano, G. N. (2015). The parasite Monascus filiformis (Trematoda, Digenea, Fellodistomidae) on Stromateus brasiliensis (Pisces, Perciformes, Stromateidae): possible routes of transmission involving jellyfish. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 96 (7): 1483–1489., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315415001757
page(s): 3 [details]

redescription Gaevskaya, A. V. (1990). Some comments on trematodes of genus Monascus Looss, 1907 (Fellodistomatidae). In: Lebedev BI (ed). Parasites of animals and plants: collection of papers. Academy of Sciences of the USSR Far-East Branch, Vladivostock, pp 69–73. (In Russian).
page(s): 70 [details]

redescription Martorelli, S. R., Cremonte, F. (1998). A proposed three-host life history of Monascus filiformis (Rudolphi, 1819)(Digenea: Fellodistomidae) in the southwest Atlantic Ocean. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 76 (6):1198–1203.
page(s): 1199 [details]

redescription Pereira, J., Jr., Fernandes, B. M. M., Robaldo, R. B. (2000). Digenea (Trematoda) of Micropogonias furnieri (Desmarest) (Perciformes, Sciaenidae) from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 17 (3): 681–686.
page(s): 683 [details]

redescription Girola, C.V., S.R. Martorelli & N.H. Sardella, 1992. Presencia de metacercarias de Monascus filiformis (Digenea, Fellodistomidae) en hidromedusas del Océano Atlántico Sur. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 65 4: 409-415.
page(s): 413 [details]

Other

additional source Öztürk, T.; Özer, A. (2016). Digenean parasites of Atlantic horse mackerel (Trachurus trachurus) in the Turkish Black Sea coast. Ege Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 33 (1): 35–40., available online at https://doi.org/10.12714/egejfas.2016.33.1.06
page(s): 38 [details]

additional source Diaz Briz, L. M.; Martorelli, S. R.; Genzano, G. N.; Mianzan, H. W. (2012). Parasitism (Trematoda, Digenea) in medusae from the southwestern Atlantic Ocean: medusa hosts, parasite prevalences, and ecological implications. Hydrobiologia. 690 (1): 215–226., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-012-1040-1
page(s): 222 [details]

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

additional source Køie, M. (1983). Digenetic trematodes from Limanda limanda (L.) (Osteichthyes, Pleuronectidae) from Danish and adjacent waters, with special reference to their life-histories. Ophelia. 22 (2): 201-228., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00785326.1983.10426596
page(s): 210 [details]

additional source 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. [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source Radujkovic, B.; Sundic, D. (2014). Parasitic flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea, Digenea, Cestoda) of fishes from the Adriatic Sea. Natura Montenegrina. 13 (1):7–280., available online at https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.1401.5448
page(s): 71 [details] Available for editors

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