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Oncophora Diesing 1851
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Oncophora Diesing, 1851
Generic diagnosis (after Baudin-Laurencin 1971, Petter 1979, and Pinto et al. 1988). Camallanidae. Body elongated, tapering at each end. Buccal capsule with two valves, marked internally by numerous interrupted ridges in both sexes. Mouth opening slit-like. Pair of tridents associated with buccal capsule. Oesophagus comprises an anterior muscular portion, and a posterior glandular portion of about equal length. Cuticle thin, finely striated in both sexes.
One species, O. melanocephala, is known from one fish species in Canada.
Notes
Published as part of Arai, Hisao P. & Smith, John W., 2016, Guide to the Parasites of Fishes of Canada Part V: Nematoda, pp. 1-274 in Zootaxa 4185 (1) on page 64, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4185.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/165530
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- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4185.1.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/165530 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFB6CA30FFB1FFB6892EC613204A9E70 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/0D054EDD-9CDC-4D16-A8B2-F1EBBDAD6E09 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/038FB248FF8EFF8989B9C59924589AEE (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Camallanidae
- Genus
- Oncophora
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Camallanida
- Phylum
- Nematoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Diesing
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oncophora Diesing, 1851 sec. Arai & Smith, 2016
References
- Baudin-Laurencin, F. (1971) Oncophora melanocephala (Rud. 1819) n. comb., nematode Camallanidae, parasite du thon albacore Neothunnus albacares. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris, 2 nd series, Vol. 42, No. 5, 1970, 984 - 988.
- Petter, A. J. (1979) Essai de classification de la sous-famille des Camallaninae (Nematoda, Camallanidae). Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire, Paris, 4 th series 1, section A, No. 4, 991 - 1008.
- Pinto, R. M., Vicente, J. J., Noronha, D. & De Fabio, S. P. (1988) Redescription of Oncophora melanocephala (Rudolphi, 1819) Baudin-Laurencin, 1971 (Nematoda, Camallanidae). Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 83, 233 - 237. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1590 / s 0074 - 02761988000200015