WoRMS taxon details
Amphiorchis Price, 1934
725101 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:725101)
accepted
Genus
Amphiorchis amphiorchis Price, 1934 (type by original designation)
Squaroacetabulum Simha & Chattopadhyaya, 1970 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Amphiorchis amphiorchis Price, 1934
- Species Amphiorchis caborojoensis Fischthal & Acholonu, 1976
- Species Amphiorchis indicus Mehrotra, 1973
- Species Amphiorchis lateralis Oguro, 1938
- Species Amphiorchis solus (Simha & Chattopadhyaya, 1970) Platt, 2002
- Species Amphiorchis stacyi Werneck & Greiner, 2018
- Species Amphiorchis indicum Simha & Chattopadhyaya, 1980 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
marine, brackish, fresh
masculine
Price, E. W. (1934). New genera and species of blood flukes from a marine turtle, with a key to the genera of the family Spirorchidae. <em>Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.</em> 24: 132–141.
page(s): 133 [details]
page(s): 133 [details]
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Price, E. W. (1934). New genera and species of blood flukes from a marine turtle, with a key to the genera of the family Spirorchidae. <em>Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.</em> 24: 132–141.
page(s): 133 [details]
original description (of Squaroacetabulum Simha & Chattopadhyaya, 1970) Simha, S. S; Chattopadhyaya, D. R. (1970). A new genus and species of a blood fluke, Squaroacetabulum solus, from the ventricle of the heart of a marine turtle, Chelone mydas. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 184: 290–294.
page(s): 293 [details]
taxonomy source Bullard, S. A.; Dutton, H. R. (2022). Resolving the Paraphyletic Turtle Blood Flukes: Revision of Spirorchiidae Stunkard, 1921 and Proposal of Carettacolidae Yamaguti, 1958, Hapalotrematidae (Stunkard, 1921) Poche, 1926, Baracktrematidae N. Fam., Plattidae N. Fam., and Atamatamidae N. Fam. <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 108(6)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1645/22-60 [details]
additional source Palumbo, E.; Werneck, M. R.; Diaz, J. I. (2019). Is Amphiorchis (Digenea: Spirorchiidae) an exclusive parasite of sea turtles?. <em>Helminthologia.</em> 56 (1): 75 – 80., available online at https://doi.org/10.2478/helm-2018-0045 [details]
identification resource Platt, T. R. (2002). Family Spirorchiidae Stunkard, 1921. In: Gibson, D. I., Jones, A. & Bray, R. A. (Eds). <em>Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 1.</em> Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 453–467.
page(s): 461 [details]
identification resource Skrjabin, K. I. (1951). Suborder Schistosomatata Skrjabin et Schulz, 1937. <em>Osnovy Trematodologii.</em> 5: 8–622. (In Russian).
page(s): 118 [details]
identification resource Werneck, M. R.; Greiner, E. C. (2018). Amphiorchis stacyi n. sp. (Digenea: Spirorchiidae) in the heart of a green turtle from Florida, USA and the literature review of Amphiorchis (Price, 1934). <em>Parasitology Research.</em> 117(6): 1709-1716., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-018-5846-2 [details]
page(s): 133 [details]
original description (of Squaroacetabulum Simha & Chattopadhyaya, 1970) Simha, S. S; Chattopadhyaya, D. R. (1970). A new genus and species of a blood fluke, Squaroacetabulum solus, from the ventricle of the heart of a marine turtle, Chelone mydas. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 184: 290–294.
page(s): 293 [details]
taxonomy source Bullard, S. A.; Dutton, H. R. (2022). Resolving the Paraphyletic Turtle Blood Flukes: Revision of Spirorchiidae Stunkard, 1921 and Proposal of Carettacolidae Yamaguti, 1958, Hapalotrematidae (Stunkard, 1921) Poche, 1926, Baracktrematidae N. Fam., Plattidae N. Fam., and Atamatamidae N. Fam. <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 108(6)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1645/22-60 [details]
additional source Palumbo, E.; Werneck, M. R.; Diaz, J. I. (2019). Is Amphiorchis (Digenea: Spirorchiidae) an exclusive parasite of sea turtles?. <em>Helminthologia.</em> 56 (1): 75 – 80., available online at https://doi.org/10.2478/helm-2018-0045 [details]
identification resource Platt, T. R. (2002). Family Spirorchiidae Stunkard, 1921. In: Gibson, D. I., Jones, A. & Bray, R. A. (Eds). <em>Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 1.</em> Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 453–467.
page(s): 461 [details]
identification resource Skrjabin, K. I. (1951). Suborder Schistosomatata Skrjabin et Schulz, 1937. <em>Osnovy Trematodologii.</em> 5: 8–622. (In Russian).
page(s): 118 [details]
identification resource Werneck, M. R.; Greiner, E. C. (2018). Amphiorchis stacyi n. sp. (Digenea: Spirorchiidae) in the heart of a green turtle from Florida, USA and the literature review of Amphiorchis (Price, 1934). <em>Parasitology Research.</em> 117(6): 1709-1716., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-018-5846-2 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
