Opisthorchis

Opisthorchis is a genus of flukes[2] in the family Opisthorchiidae.

Opisthorchis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Rhabditophora
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Opisthorchiidae
Genus: Opisthorchis
Blanchard, 1895[1]
Species

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Species

Species in the genus Opisthorchis include:

The species known as Clonorchis sinensis has sometimes been reclassified into the genus Opisthorchis.[6]

Etymology

From the Greek opisthen (behind) and orchis (testicle), Opisthorchis is a genus of trematode flatworms whose testes are located in the posterior end of the body. Sebastiano Rivolta is generally credited with discovering the first opisthorchid, which he named Distoma felineus, in a cat in Italy in 1884. However, the fluke may have been mentioned by Karl Rudolphi in 1819, and in 1831, Gurlt published a textbook that included a drawing of a fluke that was almost certainly Opisthorchis. By the end of the 19th century, Distoma contained so many species that Raphaël Blanchard introduced the genus Opisthorchis for elongated flat flukes with testes in the posterior end of the body. He chose Rivolta's Opisthorchis felineus as the type species.[7]

See also
  • List of parasites (human)

References

Includes public domain text from the CDC as cited

  1. Blanchard, R. (1895). Séance du 26 Novembre 1895. Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France 20: 217. Text on biodiversitylibrary.org.
  2. Opisthorchiasis at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
  3. Bourgat, R.; Kulo, S.-D. (1977). "Recherches expérimentales sur le cycle biologique d'Opisthorchis chabaudi n. sp. Description de l'adulte". Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 52 (6): 615–622. doi:10.1051/parasite/1977526615.
  4. Gibson, D. (2009). Opisthorchis gomtii Mehra, 1941. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=109076 on 2010-06-24
  5. Long, S., Lee, W. C. (1958). Parasitic worms from Tai Hu fishes: digenetic trematodes. II. Opisthorchidae and other families, with a description of a new species of Opisthorchis. Acta Zoologica Sinica, 4.
  6. Peters, Wallace; Pasvol, Geoffrey (2006). Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. Mosby. p. 187. ISBN 978-0323043649.
  7. "SelfEtymologia: Opisthorchis". Emerg Infect Dis. CDC. 20 (1): 83–88. January 2014. doi:10.3201/eid2001.ET2001. PMC 3884738. Retrieved 23 December 2013.


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