Genus Pleorchis Railliet, 1896

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Regional Maps

• Pleorchis Railliet, A. 1896. Quelques rectifications à la nomenclature des parasites. Recueil de Médecine Véterinaire de l'École d'Alfort 3: 157-161.

  Type species:

   Pleorchis polyorchis (Stossich, 1889) by original designation.
• Polyorchis Stossich, M. 1888. Brani di Elmintologia Tergestina. Bollettino della Società Adriatica di Scienze Naturali in Trieste xi: 23-30, pls xiii & xiv.
• Parapleorchis Al-Yamani, F.Y. & Nahhas, F.M. 1981. Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes from the Kuwaiti Coast of the Arabian Gulf. Kuwait Bulletin of Marine Science 3: 1-22.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Madhavi, R., & Narasimhulu, S.V. 1986. Studies on Pleorchis sciaenae Yamaguti, 1938 (Trematoda: Pleorchiidae) from marine fishes of Bay of Bengal. Rivista di Parasitologia 46: 185-190
• Bray, R.A. 2005. Family Acanthocolpidae Lühe, 1906. pp. 603-619 in Jones, A., Bray, R.A. & Gibson, D.I. Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 2. Wallingford : CAB International 745 pp.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Bray, R.A., Webster, B.L., Bartoli, P. & Littlewood, D.T.J. 2005. Relationships within the Acanthocolpidae Lühe, 1906 and their place among the Digenea. Acta Parasitologica 50: 281-291 (Australian record)

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