Lepotrema

Lepotrema is a genus of trematodes in the family Lepocreadiidae.[2][3]

Lepotrema
Various species of Lepotrema
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Rhabditophora
Order: Plagiorchiida
Superfamily: Lepocreadioidea
Family: Lepocreadiidae
Genus: Lepotrema
Ozaki, 1932[1]

Species of this genus are encountered in a wide range of fish families in the orders Tetraodontiformes and Perciformes, with one record from a Pleuronectiformes.[3]

Species

The following species are included in the genus, according to the World Register of Marine Species:[2]

  • Lepotrema acanthochromidis Bray, Cutmore & Cribb, 2018 [3]
  • Lepotrema adlardi (Bray, Cribb & Barker, 1993) Bray & Cribb, 1996
  • Lepotrema amansis Bray, Cutmore & Cribb, 2018 [3]
  • Lepotrema amblyglyphidodonis Bray, Cutmore & Cribb, 2018 [3]
  • Lepotrema canthescheniae Bray & Cribb, 1996
  • Lepotrema cirripectis Bray, Cutmore & Cribb, 2018 [3]
  • Lepotrema clavatum Ozaki, 1932 [1]
  • Lepotrema cylindricum (Wang, 1989) Bray, Cutmore & Cribb, 2018 [3]
  • Lepotrema hemitaurichthydis Bray, Cutmore & Cribb, 2018 [3]
  • Lepotrema incisum (Hanson, 1955) Bray & Cribb, 1996
  • Lepotrema justinei Bray, Cutmore & Cribb, 2018 [3]
  • Lepotrema melichthydis Bray, Cutmore & Cribb, 2018 [3]
  • Lepotrema monile Bray & Cribb, 1998
  • Lepotrema moretonense Bray, Cutmore & Cribb, 2018 [3]
  • Lepotrema navodonis (Shen, 1986) Bray, Cutmore & Cribb, 2018 [3]
  • Lepotrema xanthichthydis (Yamaguti, 1970) Bray & Cribb, 1996 [3]

References
  1. Ozaki, Y. (1932). A new trematode from file-fish: Lepotrema clavatum n. g., n. sp. Proceedings of the Imperial Academy, Tokyo, 8, 44–47. PDF
  2. WoRMS (2018). Lepotrema Ozaki, 1932. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=725278 on 2018-10-17
  3. Bray, Rodney A.; Cutmore, Scott C.; Cribb, Thomas H. (2018). "Lepotrema Ozaki, 1932 (Lepocreadiidae: Digenea) from Indo-Pacific fishes, with the description of eight new species, characterised by morphometric and molecular features". Systematic Parasitology. 95: 693–741. doi:10.1007/s11230-018-9821-1. ISSN 0165-5752. PMC 6223840. PMID 30324416.


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