Opisthioparorchis

Opisthioparorchis is a genus of trematodes in the family Batrachotrematidae. The separation of Opisthioparorchis and Batrachotrema, originally weakened by the heterogeneity of the former, has been solidified by the separation of species presenting tegumental spines to Opisthioparorchis and those without tegumental spines to Batrachotrema.[2] This differentiation is opposed to that of Wang (1980),[1] who separated Opisthioparorchis on the basis of the relative positioning of the testes and their relation to the internal caeca.

Opisthioparorchis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Trematoda
Order:	Plagiorchiida
Family:	Batrachotrematidae
Genus:	Opisthioparorchis Wang, 1980[1]

Species

• Opisthioparorchis boheaensis Wang, 1980[1]
• Opisthioparorchis boulengeris Li, 1997[3]
• Opisthioparorchis dehradunensis Rizvi, Bursey & Bhutia, 2012[2]
• Opisthioparorchis indica Tandon, Imkongwapang & Prasad, 2005[4]
• Opisthioparorchis megaloonos Liang, Ke & Pang, 1990[5]
• Opisthioparorchis meixianensis Liang, Ke & Pang, 1990[5]
• Opisthioparorchis nanoranae Rizvi, Bursey & Bhutia, 2012[2]
• Opisthioparorchis pleurogenitus Wang, 1980[1]
• Opisthioparorchis ranae Wang, 1980[1]
• Opisthioparorchis vietnamensis (Moravec & Sey, 1989) Rizvi, Bursey & Bhutia, 2012[6][2]
• Opisthioparorchis yaanensis (Zhang & Sha, 1985) Cribb, 2005[7][8]
• Opisthioparorchis yunnanse Li, 1996[9]

References

1. Wang, P. (1980). Report on some trematodes from amphibians and reptiles in Fujian, South China. Fujian Shida Xueba, 2, 81–92.
2. Rizvi, A. N., Bursey, C. R. & Bhutia, P. T. (2012). Three new species of Digenea (Batrachotrematidae) in Nanorana minica (Anura, Dicroglossidae) from Uttarkhand, India. Acta Parasitologica, 57(2), 154–159.
3. Li, M. (1997). Notes on fauna of trematodes of frog and birds in Wuling Mountains area and description of five new species. In Song, D. (Ed.), Invertebrates of Wuling Mountains Area, Southwestern China (pp. 306–312). Beijing: Science Press.
4. Tandon, V., Imkongwapang, R. & Prasad, P. (2005). On two new species of the trematode genera Opisthioparorchis Wang, 1980 and Batrachotrema Dollfus and Williams, 1966 (Batrachotrematidae), with a report of a Chinese species of Opsithioparorchis from anuran amphibian hosts in India. Zoos' Print Journal, 20(6), 1883–1887.
5. Liang, C., Ke, X. & Pan, L. (1990). Four new trematodes from mammals and amphibians in Guangdong Province (Trematoda: Cathaemasiidae, Batrachotrematidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 15, 393–400.
6. Moravec, F. & Sey, O. (1989). Some amphibian trematodes from Vietnam and Papua New Guinea. Vestnik Ceskoslovenske Spolecnosti Zoologicke, 53, 265–279.
7. Zhang, T. & Sha, G. (1985). Two new species of trematodes from frogs in Sichuan Province (Trematoda: Batrachotrematidae, Omphalometridae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 10, 350–353.
8. Cribb, T. H. (2005). Family Batrachotrematidae Dollfus and Williams, 1966. In Bray, R., Gibson, D. & Jones, A. (Eds.), Keys to the Trematoda. Vol. 2 (pp. 437–442). London, UK: CABI Publishing and The Natural History Museum.
9. Li, D. (1996). Two new species of trematode of frogs in Yunnan Province. Annual Bulletin of the Society of Parasitology, Guangdong Province, 18, 60–63.