Nomenclature
original description
Stafford, J. (1904). Trematodes from Canadian fishes. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 27: 481–495.
page(s): 493 [details]
original description
(of Baikalotrema Layman, 1951) Layman, E. M. (1951). Practical manual of fish diseases. <em>Pishchepromizdat, Moscow.</em> 1-150. [details]
original description
(of Lebouria (Mediantestis) Issaitschikov, 1928) Issaitschikov, I. M. (1928). Contributions to the knowledge of parasitic helminths of some groups of vertebrates in the Russian Arctic. A. Trematodes (part 1). <em>Trudy Morskoi Nauchnyi Institut, Moskva.</em> 3: 5-79. (In Russian); English partial version: Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Okeanograficheskogo Instituta 1933 Vol.3 No.(1): 37–44.
page(s): 30 [details]
basis of record
Gibson, D.I. (2001). Digenea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 136-142 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Gibson, D. I.; Bray, R. A. (1982). A study and reorganization of Plagioporus Stafford, 1904 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) and related genera, with special reference to forms from European Atlantic waters. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 16(4): 529-559., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222938200770431
page(s): 532 [details]
redescription
Truong, T. N.; Curran, S. S.; Reyda, F. B.; Rash, J. M.; Bullard, S. A. (2022). Plagioporus wataugaensis n. sp. (Digenea: Opecoelidae) infecting intestine of northern hogsucker, Hypentelium nigricans, and white sucker, Catostomus commersonii, (Cypriniformes: Catostomidae) from the eastern USA, including an emended diagnosis, key to Nearctic congeners, and phylogenetic analysis. <em>Parasitology International.</em> 102580., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parint.2022.102580 [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Cribb, T. H. (2005). Family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925. In: Jones, A., Bray, R. A. & Gibson, D. I. (Eds). <em>Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 2.</em> Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 443–531.
page(s): 524 [details]
identification resource
Skrjabin, K. I., Koval, V. P. (1958). Family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925. Subfamilies: Coitocaecinae Poche, 1925; Plagioporinae Manter, 1947. <em>Osnovy Trematodologii.</em> 15, 329–818. (In Russian).
page(s): 426 [details]
Other
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark Plagioporus (sensu stricto) is an essentially freshwater genus; many marine species are gradually being transferred to other genera, especially to Macvicaria. [details]