RAS taxon details
Parorchis acanthus (Nicoll, 1906) Nicoll, 1907
158687 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158687)
accepted
Species
Parorchis acanthus var. australis Angel, 1954 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Parorchis avitus Linton, 1914 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Variety Parorchis acanthus var. australis Angel, 1954 accepted as Parorchis acanthus (Nicoll, 1906) Nicoll, 1907 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, terrestrial
(of ) Nicoll, W. (1906). Some new and little-known trematodes. <em>Annals & Magazine of Natural History.</em> 7 s. (102), 17: 513–527., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930608678907
page(s): 519 [details]
page(s): 519 [details]
RAS (2025). Parorchis acanthus (Nicoll, 1906) Nicoll, 1907. Accessed at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php/www.pfeil-verlag.de/04biol/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158687 on 2026-09-12
RAS (Eds.) (2026). Register of Antarctic Species. Parorchis acanthus (Nicoll, 1906) Nicoll, 1907. Accessed at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158687 on 2026-09-12
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original description
(of Parorchis acanthus var. australis Angel, 1954) Angel, L. M. (1954). Parorchis acanthus var. australis, n. var., with an account of the life cycle in South Australia. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.</em> 77: 164-174.
page(s): 164 [details]
original description (of Parorchis avitus Linton, 1914) Linton, E. (1914). Notes on a viviparous Distome. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 46: 551-555., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.46-2040.551
page(s): 551 [details]
original description (of ) Nicoll, W. (1906). Some new and little-known trematodes. <em>Annals & Magazine of Natural History.</em> 7 s. (102), 17: 513–527., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930608678907
page(s): 519 [details]
context source (HKRMS) Tang, C. T. (1990). Philophthalmid larval trematodes from Hong Kong and the coast of south China. In: Proceedings of the Second International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China (ed. Morton, B.). The Marine flora and fauna of Hong Kong and southern china II, vol. 1, pp213-232. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong., available online at https://doi.org/10.1515/9789882202177-006 [details]
basis of record Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p. [details]
additional source Ching, H. L. (1978). New marine hosts for Parorchis acanthus, Cryptocotyle lingua, Maritrema megametrios, and Maritrema gratiosum, trematodes of birds from British Columbia, Canada. <em>Canadian Journal of Zoology.</em> 56 (8): 1877–1879., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z78-254
page(s): 1877 [details]
additional source Johns, P.; Newman, L.J.; Holleman, J.J.; Dawson, E.W.; Sterrer, W.; Allison, F.R.; Diggles, B.K.; Andrews, J.R.H.; Hine, P.M.; McKenna, P.B.; Poulin, R. (2009). Phylum Platyhelminthes: flatworms, tapeworms, flukes, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 102-128. [details]
redescription Gaevskaya, A. V. (2014). <em>Parasite, diseases and pests of mussels (Mytilus, Mytilidae). X. Trematoda.</em> EKOSI-Gidrofizika, Sevastopol: 255 pp. (In Ukrainian).
page(s): 160 [details]
redescription Gvozdev, E. V., Zhatkanbaeva, D. M., Belyakova, Y. V. (2006). Flatworms. Part 1. Trematodes Echinostomatates (Echinostomatata). <em>Fauna of Kazakhstan.</em> 26, Gylym, Almaty, 188 pp. (In Russian).
page(s): 141 [details]
redescription Holliman, R. B. (1961). Larval trematodes from the Apalachee Bay area, Florida, with a checklist of known marine cercariae arranged in a key to their super-families. <em>Tulane Studies in Zoology.</em> 9: 1–74.
page(s): 28 [details]
redescription Lebour, M. V. (1914). Some larval trematodes from Millport. <em>Parasitology.</em> 7 (1): 1–11.
page(s): 2 [details]
redescription Nasir, P. (1976). Marine larval trematodes. I. Cercariae criollisimae: five new Venezuelan species and redescription of Parorchis acanthus (Nicoll, 1906) Nicoll, 1907. <em>Rivista di Parassitologia.</em> 37 (2-3): 287–302.
page(s): 297 [details]
redescription Skrjabin, K. I. (1947). Family Philophthalmidae Travassos, 1918. <em>Osnovy Trematodologii.</em> 1:182–213. (In Russian, English translation, 1979, by Amerind Publishing Co.).
page(s): 204 [details]
redescription Sonin, M. D. (1985). <em>Key to identification of trematodes of piscivorous birds of the Palaearctic (Brachylaimida, Clinostomida, Cyclocoelida, Fasciolida, Notocotylida, Plagiorchida, Schistosomatida).</em> Nauka, Moscow, 256 pp. (In Russian).
page(s): 134 [details]
redescription Stunkard, H. W. (1970). The marine cercariae of the Woods Hole Massachusetts Region. <em>Biological Bulletin. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole.</em> 138: 66–76., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1540292
page(s): 74 [details]
redescription Yamaguti S. (1975). <em>A synoptical review of life histories of digenetic trematodes of vertebrates with special reference to the morphology of their larval forms.</em> Tokyo, Keigaku Publishing Co. pp. LXI I + 590 + 219 plates.
page(s): 202 [details]
new combination reference Nicoll, W. (1907). Observations on the trematode parasites of British birds. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 7. s. (117), v. 20: 245–271., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930709487332
page(s): 247 [details]
identification resource Martin, W. E. (1972). An annotated key to the cercariae that develop in the snail Cerithidea californica. <em>Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences.</em> 71: 39–43.
page(s): 41 [details]
biology source Ching, H. 1991. Lists of larval worms from marine invertebrates of the Pacific Coast of North America. Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington 58: 57-68.
page(s): 64 [details]
biology source James, B. (1968). The occurrence of larval Digenea in ten species of intertidal prosobranch molluscs in Cardigan Bay. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 2 (3): 329–343., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222936800770351
page(s): 334 [details]
biology source Lebour, M. V., Elmhirst, R. (1922). A contribution towards the life history of Parorchis acanthus Nicoll, a trematode in the herring gull. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 12 (4): 829–832., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400009838
page(s): 829 [details]
biology source Yamaguti S. (1975). <em>A synoptical review of life histories of digenetic trematodes of vertebrates with special reference to the morphology of their larval forms.</em> Tokyo, Keigaku Publishing Co. pp. LXI I + 590 + 219 plates.
page(s): 515 [details]
page(s): 164 [details]
original description (of Parorchis avitus Linton, 1914) Linton, E. (1914). Notes on a viviparous Distome. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 46: 551-555., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.46-2040.551
page(s): 551 [details]
original description (of ) Nicoll, W. (1906). Some new and little-known trematodes. <em>Annals & Magazine of Natural History.</em> 7 s. (102), 17: 513–527., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930608678907
page(s): 519 [details]
context source (HKRMS) Tang, C. T. (1990). Philophthalmid larval trematodes from Hong Kong and the coast of south China. In: Proceedings of the Second International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China (ed. Morton, B.). The Marine flora and fauna of Hong Kong and southern china II, vol. 1, pp213-232. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong., available online at https://doi.org/10.1515/9789882202177-006 [details]
basis of record Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p. [details]
additional source Ching, H. L. (1978). New marine hosts for Parorchis acanthus, Cryptocotyle lingua, Maritrema megametrios, and Maritrema gratiosum, trematodes of birds from British Columbia, Canada. <em>Canadian Journal of Zoology.</em> 56 (8): 1877–1879., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z78-254
page(s): 1877 [details]
additional source Johns, P.; Newman, L.J.; Holleman, J.J.; Dawson, E.W.; Sterrer, W.; Allison, F.R.; Diggles, B.K.; Andrews, J.R.H.; Hine, P.M.; McKenna, P.B.; Poulin, R. (2009). Phylum Platyhelminthes: flatworms, tapeworms, flukes, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 102-128. [details]
redescription Gaevskaya, A. V. (2014). <em>Parasite, diseases and pests of mussels (Mytilus, Mytilidae). X. Trematoda.</em> EKOSI-Gidrofizika, Sevastopol: 255 pp. (In Ukrainian).
page(s): 160 [details]
redescription Gvozdev, E. V., Zhatkanbaeva, D. M., Belyakova, Y. V. (2006). Flatworms. Part 1. Trematodes Echinostomatates (Echinostomatata). <em>Fauna of Kazakhstan.</em> 26, Gylym, Almaty, 188 pp. (In Russian).
page(s): 141 [details]
redescription Holliman, R. B. (1961). Larval trematodes from the Apalachee Bay area, Florida, with a checklist of known marine cercariae arranged in a key to their super-families. <em>Tulane Studies in Zoology.</em> 9: 1–74.
page(s): 28 [details]
redescription Lebour, M. V. (1914). Some larval trematodes from Millport. <em>Parasitology.</em> 7 (1): 1–11.
page(s): 2 [details]
redescription Nasir, P. (1976). Marine larval trematodes. I. Cercariae criollisimae: five new Venezuelan species and redescription of Parorchis acanthus (Nicoll, 1906) Nicoll, 1907. <em>Rivista di Parassitologia.</em> 37 (2-3): 287–302.
page(s): 297 [details]
redescription Skrjabin, K. I. (1947). Family Philophthalmidae Travassos, 1918. <em>Osnovy Trematodologii.</em> 1:182–213. (In Russian, English translation, 1979, by Amerind Publishing Co.).
page(s): 204 [details]
redescription Sonin, M. D. (1985). <em>Key to identification of trematodes of piscivorous birds of the Palaearctic (Brachylaimida, Clinostomida, Cyclocoelida, Fasciolida, Notocotylida, Plagiorchida, Schistosomatida).</em> Nauka, Moscow, 256 pp. (In Russian).
page(s): 134 [details]
redescription Stunkard, H. W. (1970). The marine cercariae of the Woods Hole Massachusetts Region. <em>Biological Bulletin. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole.</em> 138: 66–76., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1540292
page(s): 74 [details]
redescription Yamaguti S. (1975). <em>A synoptical review of life histories of digenetic trematodes of vertebrates with special reference to the morphology of their larval forms.</em> Tokyo, Keigaku Publishing Co. pp. LXI I + 590 + 219 plates.
page(s): 202 [details]
new combination reference Nicoll, W. (1907). Observations on the trematode parasites of British birds. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 7. s. (117), v. 20: 245–271., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930709487332
page(s): 247 [details]
identification resource Martin, W. E. (1972). An annotated key to the cercariae that develop in the snail Cerithidea californica. <em>Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences.</em> 71: 39–43.
page(s): 41 [details]
biology source Ching, H. 1991. Lists of larval worms from marine invertebrates of the Pacific Coast of North America. Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington 58: 57-68.
page(s): 64 [details]
biology source James, B. (1968). The occurrence of larval Digenea in ten species of intertidal prosobranch molluscs in Cardigan Bay. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 2 (3): 329–343., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222936800770351
page(s): 334 [details]
biology source Lebour, M. V., Elmhirst, R. (1922). A contribution towards the life history of Parorchis acanthus Nicoll, a trematode in the herring gull. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 12 (4): 829–832., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400009838
page(s): 829 [details]
biology source Yamaguti S. (1975). <em>A synoptical review of life histories of digenetic trematodes of vertebrates with special reference to the morphology of their larval forms.</em> Tokyo, Keigaku Publishing Co. pp. LXI I + 590 + 219 plates.
page(s): 515 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Parorchis avitus Linton, 1914)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Parorchis acanthus var. australis Angel, 1954)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (33 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Parorchis acanthus)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Parorchis avitus Linton, 1914)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (14 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (3 records) (from synonym Parorchis avitus Linton, 1914)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Parorchis acanthus var. australis Angel, 1954)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (33 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Parorchis acanthus)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Parorchis avitus Linton, 1914)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (14 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (3 records) (from synonym Parorchis avitus Linton, 1914)
