Opisthorchis
| Opisthorchis | |
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| adult Opisthorchis viverrini | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Trematoda |
| Order: | Opisthorchiida |
| Family: | Opisthorchiidae |
| Genus: | Opisthorchis |
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Opisthorchis is a genus of flukes[1] in the family Opisthorchiidae.
Species
Species in the genus Opisthorchis include:
- Opisthorchis felineus (Rivolta, 1884)[2]
- Opisthorchis gomtii Mehra, 1941[3]
- Opisthorchis parasiluri Long & Lee[4]
- Opisthorchis viverrini Poirier, 1886
The species formerly known as Opisthorchis sinensis have been reclassified into the genus Clonorchis.
Etymology
From the Greek opisthen (behind) and orchis (testicle), Opisthorchis is a genus of trematode flatworms whose testes are located in the posterior end of the body. Sebastiano Rivolta is generally credited with discovering the first opisthorchid, which he named Distoma felineus, in a cat in Italy in 1884. However, the fluke may have been mentioned by Karl Rudolphi in 1819, and in 1831, Gurlt published a textbook that included a drawing of a fluke that was almost certainly Opisthorchis. By the end of the 19th century, Distoma contained so many species that Raphaël Blanchard introduced the genus Opisthorchis for elongated flat flukes with testes in the posterior end of the body. He chose Rivolta’s Opisthorchis felineus as the type species. [5]
See also
- List of parasites (human)
References
Includes public domain text from the CDC as cited
- ↑ Opisthorchiasis at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
- ↑ Blanchard, R. (1895). Séance du 26 Novembre 1895. Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France 20: 217. Text on biodiversitylibrary.org.
- ↑ Gibson, D. (2009). Opisthorchis gomtii Mehra, 1941. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=109076 on 2010-06-24
- ↑ Long, S., Lee, W. C. (1958). Parasitic worms from Tai Hu fishes: digenetic trematodes. II. Opisthorchidae and other families, with a description of a new species of Opisthorchis. Acta Zoologica Sinica, 4.
- ↑ "SelfEtymologia: Opisthorchis". Emerg Infect Dis [Internet]. (CDC) 20 (1): 83–88. January 2014. doi:10.3201/eid2001.ET2001. Retrieved 23 December 2013.