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''Anisoporus'' is a genus of
trematodes Trematoda is a class of flatworms known as flukes. They are obligate internal parasites with a complex life cycle requiring at least two hosts. The intermediate host, in which asexual reproduction occurs, is usually a snail. The definitive host ...
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Opecoelidae Opecoelidae is a family of trematodes. It is the largest digenean family with over 90 genera and nearly 900 species, almost solely found in marine and freshwater teleost fishes.Bray, Rodney A., Cribb, Thomas H., Littlewood, D. Timothy J. & Waesch ...
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Species

*'' Anisoporus cobraeformis'' Ozaki, 1928 *'' Anisoporus orientalis'' Madhavi, 1975Madhavi, R. (1975). Digenetic trematodes from marine fishes of Waltair Coast, Bay of Bengal. Family Opecoelidae. ''Rivista di Parassitologia'', 36, 153–164.


Former species

Some species formerly in ''Anisoporus'' have been synonymised to other genera. They are: *''Anisoporus eucinostomi'' Manter, 1940,Manter, H. W. (1940). Digenetic trematodes of fishes from the Galapagos Islands and the neighboring Pacific. ''Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions'', 2, 364–473. synonymised to ''Opecoeloides eucinostomi'' (Manter, 1940) von Wicklen, 1946von Wicklen, J. H. (1946). The trematode genus ''Opecoeloides'' and related genera, with a description of ''Opecoeloides polynemi'' n. sp. ''The Journal of Parasitology'', 32(2), 156–163. *''Anisoporus manteri'' Hunninen & Cable, 1940,Hunninen, A. V. & Cable, R. M. (1940). Studies on the life history of ''Anisoporus manteri'' sp. nov. (Trematoda: Allocreadiidae). ''The Biological Bulletin'', 79, 373–374. synonymised to ''Opecoeloides manteri'' (Hunninen & Cable, 1940) Hunninen & Cable, 1941Hunninen, A. V. & Cable, R. M. (1941). Studies on the life history of ''Anisoporus manteri'' Hunninen and Cable, 1940 (Trematoda: Allocreadiidae). ''The Biological Bulletin'', 80(3), 415–428. *''Anisoporus thyrinopsi'' Manter, 1940, synonymised to ''Opecoeloides thyrinopsi'' (Manter, 1940) Skrjabin & Petrov, 1958Skrjabin, K. I. & Petrov, A. M. (1958). Subfamily Opecoelidae Stunkard. ''Osnovy Trematodologii'', 15, 94–329.


References

Opecoelidae Plagiorchiida genera {{trematoda-stub