WoRMS taxon details
Acanthostomum spiniceps (Looss, 1896) Looss, 1899
727732 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:727732)
accepted
Species
Acanthochasmus spiniceps (Looss, 1896) Looss, 1901 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Anoiktostoma spiniceps (Looss, 1896) Stossich, 1899 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Distomum spiniceps Looss, 1896 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Proctocaecum spiniceps (Looss, 1896) Lamothe-Argumedo & Ponciano-Rodriguez, 1986 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, fresh
(of Distomum spiniceps Looss, 1896) Looss, A. (1896). Recherches sur la fauna parasitaire de l'Égypte. Première partie. <em>Memoires de l'Institute Egyptien. Le Caire.</em> 3: 1-252.
page(s): 114 [details]
page(s): 114 [details]
Type locality contained in Egypt
type locality contained in Egypt [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
WoRMS (2025). Acanthostomum spiniceps (Looss, 1896) Looss, 1899. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=727732 on 2025-03-23
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Distomum spiniceps Looss, 1896) Looss, A. (1896). Recherches sur la fauna parasitaire de l'Égypte. Première partie. <em>Memoires de l'Institute Egyptien. Le Caire.</em> 3: 1-252.
page(s): 114 [details]
new combination reference Looss, A. (1899). Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Trematoden-Fauna Aegyptens, zugleich Versuch einer natürlichen Gliederung des Genus Distomum Retzius. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher.</em> 12: 521-784., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.2037
page(s): 578 [details]
page(s): 114 [details]
new combination reference Looss, A. (1899). Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Trematoden-Fauna Aegyptens, zugleich Versuch einer natürlichen Gliederung des Genus Distomum Retzius. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher.</em> 12: 521-784., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.2037
page(s): 578 [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Mansour, A.; Hussein, A.-N.; Ammar, K.; Morsy, K. (2021). Annotated record of digenean parasites collected from fishes of the River Nile in Qena and Aswan governorates, Egypt. <em>SVU-International Journal of Veterinary Sciences.</em> 4(4): 68-84., available online at https://doi.org/10.21608/svu.2021.94053.1148 [details]
redescription Fischthal, J. H., Kuntz, R. E. (1963). Trematode parasites of fishes from Egypt. Part V. Annotated record of some previously described forms. <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 49 (1): 91-98.
page(s): 91 [details]
redescription Abdel-Gaber, R.; Abdel-Ghaffar, F.; Mehlhorn, H.; Al Quraishy, S.; Morsy, K.; Maher, S. (2018). Light microscopic study of four plagiorchiid trematodes infecting marine fish in the south-eastern Mediterranean Sea, Alexandria City, with descriptions of two new species. <em>Parasitology Research.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-018-5811-0 [details]
redescription Morozov, F. N. (1955). Suborder Heterophyata Morosov, 1955. <em>Osnovy Trematodologii.</em> 10: 241-335. (In Russian).
page(s): 253 [details]
redescription Dollfus, R. P. (1932). Mission Saharienne Augiéras Draper, 1927-1928. Trématodes de mammifères, oiseaux et poissons. <em>Bulletin du Museum national d'histoire naturelle.</em> 2. s., v. 4 (5): 555-563.
page(s): 559 [details]
redescription Greze, V. N., Delyamure, S. L. & Nikolaeva, V. M. (Eds.). (1975). <em>Key to the parasites of vertebrates of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.</em> Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 551 pp. (In Russian).
page(s): 193 [details]
redescription Moravec F. (1976). On two acanthostomatid trematodes, Acanthostomum spiniceps (Looss, 1896) and A. absconditum (Looss, 1901), from African bagrid fishes,. <em>Folia Parasitologica.</em> 23 : 201–206. [details]
redescription Fernandes, B. M. M., Pinto, R. M., Cohen, S. C. (2002). Report on two species of Digenea from marine fishes in Brazil. <em>Brazilian Journal of Biology.</em> 62 (3): 459–462.
page(s): 460 [details]
redescription Al Ghamdi, A. (2018). Redescription of Acanthostomum spiniceps (Digenea) Infecting Lates niloticus (Perciformes: Latidae) on the basis of light microscopy. <em>World Applied Sciences Journal.</em> 6 (4): 619–623., available online at https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.wasj.2018.619.623
page(s): 620 [details]
redescription Morsy, K.; El-Fayoumi, H.; Ali, S. (2013). Acanthostomum spiniceps (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae: Acanthostominae), a parasite of the African snook Lates niloticus (Perciformes: Latidae). a light and scanning electron microscopic study. <em>Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology.</em> 43 (3): 697–704., available online at https://doi.org/10.21608/jesp.2013.93316
page(s): 697 [details]
redescription Ibraheem, M. H. (2006). On the morphology of Acanthostomum spiniceps (Looss, 1896) and A. absconditum (Looss, 1901) (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae: Acanthostominae) with particular reference to the juvenile stage. <em>Acta Zoologica.</em> 87 (3): 159–169., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6395.2006.00227.x
page(s): 160 [details]
redescription Allam, H. E.; Mashaly, M. I.; El-Naggar, M. M. (2023). Light and scanning electron microscope observations of the digenean intestinal parasite Acanthostomum spiniceps Looss 1896 (Cryptogonimidae) from the catfish Bagrus bajad and B. docmak. <em>Zoomorphology.</em> 142(3): 285-298., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-023-00600-z [details]
redescription Fischthal, J. H., Kuntz, R. E. (1963). Trematode parasites of fishes from Egypt. Part V. Annotated record of some previously described forms. <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 49 (1): 91-98.
page(s): 91 [details]
redescription Abdel-Gaber, R.; Abdel-Ghaffar, F.; Mehlhorn, H.; Al Quraishy, S.; Morsy, K.; Maher, S. (2018). Light microscopic study of four plagiorchiid trematodes infecting marine fish in the south-eastern Mediterranean Sea, Alexandria City, with descriptions of two new species. <em>Parasitology Research.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-018-5811-0 [details]
redescription Morozov, F. N. (1955). Suborder Heterophyata Morosov, 1955. <em>Osnovy Trematodologii.</em> 10: 241-335. (In Russian).
page(s): 253 [details]
redescription Dollfus, R. P. (1932). Mission Saharienne Augiéras Draper, 1927-1928. Trématodes de mammifères, oiseaux et poissons. <em>Bulletin du Museum national d'histoire naturelle.</em> 2. s., v. 4 (5): 555-563.
page(s): 559 [details]
redescription Greze, V. N., Delyamure, S. L. & Nikolaeva, V. M. (Eds.). (1975). <em>Key to the parasites of vertebrates of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.</em> Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 551 pp. (In Russian).
page(s): 193 [details]
redescription Moravec F. (1976). On two acanthostomatid trematodes, Acanthostomum spiniceps (Looss, 1896) and A. absconditum (Looss, 1901), from African bagrid fishes,. <em>Folia Parasitologica.</em> 23 : 201–206. [details]
redescription Fernandes, B. M. M., Pinto, R. M., Cohen, S. C. (2002). Report on two species of Digenea from marine fishes in Brazil. <em>Brazilian Journal of Biology.</em> 62 (3): 459–462.
page(s): 460 [details]
redescription Al Ghamdi, A. (2018). Redescription of Acanthostomum spiniceps (Digenea) Infecting Lates niloticus (Perciformes: Latidae) on the basis of light microscopy. <em>World Applied Sciences Journal.</em> 6 (4): 619–623., available online at https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.wasj.2018.619.623
page(s): 620 [details]
redescription Morsy, K.; El-Fayoumi, H.; Ali, S. (2013). Acanthostomum spiniceps (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae: Acanthostominae), a parasite of the African snook Lates niloticus (Perciformes: Latidae). a light and scanning electron microscopic study. <em>Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology.</em> 43 (3): 697–704., available online at https://doi.org/10.21608/jesp.2013.93316
page(s): 697 [details]
redescription Ibraheem, M. H. (2006). On the morphology of Acanthostomum spiniceps (Looss, 1896) and A. absconditum (Looss, 1901) (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae: Acanthostominae) with particular reference to the juvenile stage. <em>Acta Zoologica.</em> 87 (3): 159–169., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6395.2006.00227.x
page(s): 160 [details]
redescription Allam, H. E.; Mashaly, M. I.; El-Naggar, M. M. (2023). Light and scanning electron microscope observations of the digenean intestinal parasite Acanthostomum spiniceps Looss 1896 (Cryptogonimidae) from the catfish Bagrus bajad and B. docmak. <em>Zoomorphology.</em> 142(3): 285-298., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-023-00600-z [details]
Other
additional source
Mansour, M. F. A. (2012). Ultrastructure of the spermatozoon of Acanthostomum spiniceps (Digenea: Acanthostomidae), a parasite of Bagrus spp. (Siluriformes:Bagridae). <em>Parasitology Research.</em> 110 (4): 1357–1362., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-011-2635-6
page(s): 1367 [details]
additional source Allam, H. E.; Mashaly, M. I.; El-Naggar, M. M. (2022). Ecological studies on the helminth parasites of catfishes <i>Bagrus</i> spp. (Bagridae) and <i>Chrysichthys auratus</i> (Claroteidae) inhabiting Damietta branch, River Nile, Egypt. <em>Egyptian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences.</em> 10(1): 55-68., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/2314808x.2022.2146854 [details]
additional source Khalil, L. F. (1963). On Acanthostomum gymnarchi (Dollfus, 1950) with notes on the genera .Acanthostomum Looss, 1899, Atrophecaecum Bhalerao, 1940, Gymnatotrema Morosov, 1955, and Haplocaecum Simha, 1958. <em>Journal of Helminthology.</em> 37: 207-214.
page(s): 212 [details]
additional source Kudlai, O.; Scholz,T.; Smit, N. (2018). Trematoda. <em>In: Scholz,T.; Vanhove, M. P. M.; Smit, N.; Jayasundera, Z. & Gelnar, M. A Guide to the Parasites of African Freshwater Fishes. CEBioS, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels.</em> pp. 245-268. [details]
additional source Kohn, A.; Fernandes, B.M.M.; Cohen, S.C. (2007). South American trematode parasites of fishes. <em>CNPq, FIOCRUZ.</em> 318 pp. [details]
additional source Ghosh, A.; Sreeraj, C. R. (2023). Fauna of India Checklist: Platyhelminthes. <em>Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata.</em> 49 pp., available online at https://doi.org/10.26515/fauna/1/2023/platyhelminthes [details]
page(s): 1367 [details]
additional source Allam, H. E.; Mashaly, M. I.; El-Naggar, M. M. (2022). Ecological studies on the helminth parasites of catfishes <i>Bagrus</i> spp. (Bagridae) and <i>Chrysichthys auratus</i> (Claroteidae) inhabiting Damietta branch, River Nile, Egypt. <em>Egyptian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences.</em> 10(1): 55-68., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/2314808x.2022.2146854 [details]
additional source Khalil, L. F. (1963). On Acanthostomum gymnarchi (Dollfus, 1950) with notes on the genera .Acanthostomum Looss, 1899, Atrophecaecum Bhalerao, 1940, Gymnatotrema Morosov, 1955, and Haplocaecum Simha, 1958. <em>Journal of Helminthology.</em> 37: 207-214.
page(s): 212 [details]
additional source Kudlai, O.; Scholz,T.; Smit, N. (2018). Trematoda. <em>In: Scholz,T.; Vanhove, M. P. M.; Smit, N.; Jayasundera, Z. & Gelnar, M. A Guide to the Parasites of African Freshwater Fishes. CEBioS, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels.</em> pp. 245-268. [details]
additional source Kohn, A.; Fernandes, B.M.M.; Cohen, S.C. (2007). South American trematode parasites of fishes. <em>CNPq, FIOCRUZ.</em> 318 pp. [details]
additional source Ghosh, A.; Sreeraj, C. R. (2023). Fauna of India Checklist: Platyhelminthes. <em>Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata.</em> 49 pp., available online at https://doi.org/10.26515/fauna/1/2023/platyhelminthes [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Acanthochasmus spiniceps (Looss, 1896) Looss, 1901)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (1 record) (from synonym Acanthochasmus spiniceps (Looss, 1896) Looss, 1901)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (3 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (Holotype USNM 1355472)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Acanthochasmus spiniceps (Looss, 1896) Looss, 1901)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (1 record) (from synonym Acanthochasmus spiniceps (Looss, 1896) Looss, 1901)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (3 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (Holotype USNM 1355472)
