WoRMS name details
Heliconema longissimum (Ortlepp, 1923)
990503 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:990503)
uncertain > taxon inquirendum
Species
Physaloptera longissima Ortlepp, 1923 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Physaloptera longissima Ortlepp, 1923) Ortlepp, R. J. (1923). The nematode genus Physaloptera Rud. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 92: 999-1107. [details] 
Type locality contained in Australia
type locality contained in Australia [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Taxonomy However, as explained by Moravec et al. (2019), the species H. longissimum was inadequately described from snakes in...
Taxonomy However, as explained by Moravec et al. (2019), the species H. longissimum was inadequately described from snakes in Australia and this name should only be used for the type specimens originally studied by Ortlepp (1922), until this species is redescribed in detail based on a newly collected topotypic material and the validity of H. longissimum is confirmed. Therefore, the records of H. longissimum from freshwater or brackish-water fishes should be considered as misidentifications, including those from M. armatus in India by Ogden (1969) and De et al. (1978). [details]
Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Heliconema longissimum (Ortlepp, 1923). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=990503 on 2025-03-30
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Physaloptera longissima Ortlepp, 1923) Ortlepp, R. J. (1923). The nematode genus Physaloptera Rud. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 92: 999-1107. [details]
new combination reference Chabaud, A.G. & Y. Campana-Rouget. (1956). Le genre Ortleppina Schulz 1927, parasite d' apodes, et nonde serpents, est synonyme du genre Heliconema Travassos 1919. <em>Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée.</em> 31: 308-309. [details] Available for editors
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new combination reference Chabaud, A.G. & Y. Campana-Rouget. (1956). Le genre Ortleppina Schulz 1927, parasite d' apodes, et nonde serpents, est synonyme du genre Heliconema Travassos 1919. <em>Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée.</em> 31: 308-309. [details] Available for editors
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taxonomy source
Moravec, F.; Chaudhary, A.; Kashyap, D.; Singh, S.; Kumar, Y. (2022). Description of Pseudocapillaria (Discocapillaria) trilobularis n. sp. (Capillariidae) and redescription of Heliconema alatum (Majumdar, 1965) (Physalopteridae), two nematodes parasitising synbranchiform fishes in India. <em>Systematic Parasitology.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-022-10053-5 [details]
Other
additional source
Nguyen, H.-H. T.; Van Nguyen, H.; Van Hien, H.; Chinh, N. N.; Truong, V. T. T.; Van Kim, V.; Hoai, T. D.; Duc, P. P.; Greiman, S. E.; Nguyen, H. M. (2024). Marine fish parasites in the Cat Ba Archipelago, Vietnam: the results of 2010-2023 field surveys. <em>Systematic Parasitology.</em> 101(2)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-023-10145-w [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy However, as explained by Moravec et al. (2019), the species H. longissimum was inadequately described from snakes in Australia and this name should only be used for the type specimens originally studied by Ortlepp (1922), until this species is redescribed in detail based on a newly collected topotypic material and the validity of H. longissimum is confirmed. Therefore, the records of H. longissimum from freshwater or brackish-water fishes should be considered as misidentifications, including those from M. armatus in India by Ogden (1969) and De et al. (1978). [details]
