genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
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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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family
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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
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Pinguitrema lobatum
''Pinguitrema'' is a genus of trematodes in the family 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 ...
'' Siddiqi & Cable, 1960
*'' Pinguitrema multilobatum'' (Travassos, Freitas & Burnheim, 1966) mend. Gibson, 1976Cribb, 2005Travassos, L., Freitas, J. & Bürnheim, P. (1966). Trematódeos de peixes do litoral capixaba: ''Plagioporus (Plagioporus) multilobatus'' sp. n., parasita de palmituma. ''Atas da Sociedade de Biologia do Rio de Janeiro'', 10, 35–38.Gibson, D. I. (1976). Monogenea and Digenea from fishes. ''Discovery Reports'', 36, 179–266.Cribb, T. H. (2005). Family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925. In Bray, R., Gibson, D. & Jones, A. (Eds.), ''Keys to the Trematoda. Vol. 2'' (pp. 443–531). London, UK: CABI Publishing and The Natural History Museum.