Neohelicometra is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae. It consists of only one species, Neohelicometra scorpaenae.
Former species A number of species formerly in Neohelicometra have been synonymised to other genera. They are: Neohelicometra antarcticae (Holloway & Bier, 1968) Sekerak & Arai, 1974,Holloway, H. L., Jr. & Bier, J. W. (1960). Helicometra antarcticae sp. nov. from Antarctic coastal fishes. Proceedings of The Helmithological Society of Washington, 35(1), 30–34.Sekerak, A. D. & Arai, H. P. (1974). A revision of Helicometra Odhner, 1902 and related genera (Trematoda: Opecoelidae), including a description of Neohelicometra sebastis n. sp. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 52(6), 707–738. synonymised to Helicometra antarcticae Holloway & Bier, 1968 Neohelicometra dalianensis Li, Qiu & Zhang, 1989,Li, Q. K., Qiu, Z. Z. & Zhang, R. S. (1989). Digenetic trematodes of fishes from the Bo-Hai Sea, China. 6. (Trematoda: Opecoelidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 14(1), 2–16. synonymised to Helicometra dalianensis (Li, Qiu & Zhang, 1989) Cribb, 2005Cribb, T. H. (2005). Family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925. In Jones, A., Bray, R. & Gibson, D. (Eds.), Keys to the Trematoda, Volume 2 (pp. 443–531). London: CABI Publishing and the Natural History Museum. Neohelicometra insolita (Polyanski, 1955) Sekerak & Arai, 1974,Polyanski, Y. I. (1955). Studies on the parasitology of the fish in the northern seas of the USSR. Parasites of fish of the Barents Sea. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Leningrad, 19, 5–170. synonymised to Helicometra insolita Polyanski, 1955 Neohelicometra pleurogrammi (Baeva, 1968) Sekerak & Arai, 1974,Baeva, O. M. (1968). Helminth fauna of Pleurogrammus azonus in the Sea of Japan. In Skrjabin, K. I. & Mamaev, Y. L. (Eds.), Helminths of animals of the Pacific Ocean (pp. 80–88). Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Nauka. synonymised to Helicometra pleurogrammi (Baeva, 1968) Neohelicometra sebastis Sekerak & Arai, 1974, synonymised to Helicometra sebastis (Sekerak & Arai, 1974) Bray, 1979Bray, R. A. (1979). Digenea in marine fishes from the eastern seaboard of Canada. Journal of Natural History, 13, 399–431.
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