RAS taxon details
Lepocreadiidae Odhner, 1905
- Genus Opechona Looss, 1907
- Genus Lepodora Odhner, 1905 accepted as Lepidapedon Stafford, 1904 (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh
Not documented
RAS (2025). Lepocreadiidae Odhner, 1905. Accessed at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=108438 on 2026-03-23
RAS (Eds.) (2026). Register of Antarctic Species. Lepocreadiidae Odhner, 1905. Accessed at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=108438 on 2026-03-23
context source (PeRMS)
Luque, J.L., C. Cruces, J. Chero, F. Paschoal, P.V. Alves, A.C. Silva, L. Sanchez & J. Iannacone. (2016). Lista de verificación de los metazoos parásitos de peces de Perú. [Checklist of metazoan parasites of fishes from Peru.]. <em>Neotropical Helminthology.</em> 10(2):301-375., available online at https://doi.org/10.24039/rnh2016102751 [details] Available for editors 
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]
additional source Cable, R. M.; Hunninen, A. V. (1942). Studies on Deropristis Inflata (Molin), Its Life History and Affinities to Trematodes of the Family Acanthocolpidae. <em>Biological Bulletin.</em> 82(2): 292-312., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1538079
page(s): 307; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details]
additional source Bray, R. A.; Gibson, D. I. (1997). The Lepocreadiidae Odhner, 1905 (Digenea) of fishes from the north-east Atlantic: summary paper, with keys and checklists. <em>Systematic Parasitology.</em> 36(3): 223-228., available online at https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1005773518323
page(s): 223; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details]
identification resource Skrjabin, K. I., Koval, V. P. (1960). Suborder Allocreadiata Skrjabin, Petrov and Koval, 1958. Part two. Superfamily Lepocreadioidea Cable, 1956. <em>Osnovy Trematodologii.</em> 18, 13-377. (In Russian: English translation (1965) Israel Program for Scientific Translations. Cat. No. 1426, 1967-1272).
page(s): 17 [details]
identification resource Bray, R. A. (2005). Family Lepocreadiidae Odhner, 1905. In: Jones, A., Bray,. R.A., Gibson, D.I. (Eds). <em>Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 2.</em> CABI Publishing and the Natural History Museum, Wallingford, 545–602., available online at https://doi.org/10.1079/9780851995878.0545
page(s): 545 [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]
additional source Cable, R. M.; Hunninen, A. V. (1942). Studies on Deropristis Inflata (Molin), Its Life History and Affinities to Trematodes of the Family Acanthocolpidae. <em>Biological Bulletin.</em> 82(2): 292-312., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1538079
page(s): 307; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details]
additional source Bray, R. A.; Gibson, D. I. (1997). The Lepocreadiidae Odhner, 1905 (Digenea) of fishes from the north-east Atlantic: summary paper, with keys and checklists. <em>Systematic Parasitology.</em> 36(3): 223-228., available online at https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1005773518323
page(s): 223; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details]
identification resource Skrjabin, K. I., Koval, V. P. (1960). Suborder Allocreadiata Skrjabin, Petrov and Koval, 1958. Part two. Superfamily Lepocreadioidea Cable, 1956. <em>Osnovy Trematodologii.</em> 18, 13-377. (In Russian: English translation (1965) Israel Program for Scientific Translations. Cat. No. 1426, 1967-1272).
page(s): 17 [details]
identification resource Bray, R. A. (2005). Family Lepocreadiidae Odhner, 1905. In: Jones, A., Bray,. R.A., Gibson, D.I. (Eds). <em>Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 2.</em> CABI Publishing and the Natural History Museum, Wallingford, 545–602., available online at https://doi.org/10.1079/9780851995878.0545
page(s): 545 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
