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. It consists of only one species, ''Neohelicometra scorpaenae'' Siddiqi & Cable, 1960.

Former species

A number of species formerly in ''Neohelicometra'' have been synonymised to other genera. They are: *''Neohelicometra antarcticae'' (Holloway & Bier, 1968) Sekerak & Arai, 1974,Holloway, H. L., Jr. & Bier, J. W. (1960). ''Helicometra antarcticae'' sp. nov. from Antarctic coastal fishes. ''Proceedings of The Helmithological Society of Washington'', 35(1), 30–34.Sekerak, A. D. & Arai, H. P. (1974). A revision of ''Helicometra'' Odhner, 1902 and related genera (Trematoda: Opecoelidae), including a description of ''Neohelicometra sebastis'' n. sp. ''Canadian Journal of Zoology'', 52(6), 707–738. synonymised to ''Helicometra antarcticae'' Holloway & Bier, 1968 *''Neohelicometra dalianensis'' Li, Qiu & Zhang, 1989,Li, Q. K., Qiu, Z. Z. & Zhang, R. S. (1989). Digenetic trematodes of fishes from the Bo-Hai Sea, China. 6. (Trematoda: Opecoelidae). ''Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica'', 14(1), 2–16. synonymised to ''Helicometra dalianensis'' (Li, Qiu & Zhang, 1989) Cribb, 2005Cribb, T. H. (2005). Family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925. In Jones, A., Bray, R. & Gibson, D. (Eds.), ''Keys to the Trematoda, Volume 2'' (pp. 443–531). London: CABI Publishing and the Natural History Museum. *''Neohelicometra insolita'' (Polyanski, 1955) Sekerak & Arai, 1974,Polyanski, Y. I. (1955). Studies on the parasitology of the fish in the northern seas of the USSR. Parasites of fish of the Barents Sea. ''Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Leningrad'', 19, 5–170. synonymised to ''Helicometra insolita'' Polyanski, 1955 *''Neohelicometra pleurogrammi'' (Baeva, 1968) Sekerak & Arai, 1974,Baeva, O. M. (1968). Helminth fauna of ''Pleurogrammus azonus'' in the Sea of Japan. In Skrjabin, K. I. & Mamaev, Y. L. (Eds.), ''Helminths of animals of the Pacific Ocean'' (pp. 80–88). Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Nauka. synonymised to ''Helicometra pleurogrammi'' (Baeva, 1968) *''Neohelicometra sebastis'' Sekerak & Arai, 1974, synonymised to ''Helicometra sebastis'' (Sekerak & Arai, 1974) Bray, 1979Bray, R. A. (1979). Digenea in marine fishes from the eastern seaboard of Canada. ''Journal of Natural History'', 13, 399–431.

References

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