Genus Helicometra Odhner, 1902

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• Helicometra Odhner, T. 1902. Mittheilungen zur Kenntnis der Distomum. II. 1. Drei neue Distomen aus der Gallenblase von Nilfischen. 2. Deropristis n. g.. 3. Helicometra n. g. Allocreadiinarum. Centralblatt für Bakteriologie 36: 152-162, 3 text-figs [160].

  Type species:

   Helicometra pulchella (Rudolphi, 1819) Odhner, 1902 by monotypy.
• Stenopera Manter, H.W. 1933. The genus Helicometra and related trematodes from Tortugas, Florida. Papers from the Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institute of Washington 435: 167-182.
• Allostenopera Baeva, O.M. 1968. Helminth fauna of Pleurogrammus azonus Jordan & Metz in the Sea of Japan. pp. 80-88 in Skryabin, K.I. & Manaev, Yu.L. (eds). [Helminths of Animals from the Pacific Ocean]. Moscow : Nauka.
• Metahelicometra Yamaguti, S. 1971. Synopsis of digenetic trematodes of vertebrates. Tokyo : Keigaku Publishing Co. 2 vols pp. 1-1074.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cribb, T.H. 2005. Family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925. pp. 443-531 in Jones, A., Bray, R.A. & Gibson, D.I. Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 2. Wallingford : CAB International 745 pp.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

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