Opegaster is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae.

Species

Opegaster acuta Manter, 1940Manter, H. W. (1940). Digenetic trematodes of fishes from the Galapagos Islands and the neighboring Pacific. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 2, 325–497 Opegaster alykhani Bilqees, Hadi, Khatoon, Muti-ur-Rehman, Perveen & Haseeb, 2009Bilqees, F., Hadi, R., Khatoon, N., Muti-ur-Rehman, Perveen, S. & Haseeb, M. (2009). Opegaster alykhani n. sp. (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from the fish Lutjanus argentimaculatus (Day) of Karachi coast. Proceedings of Parasitology, 48, 65–71. Opegaster anguilli Harshey, 1933Harshey, K. R. (1933). On a new trematode with anus belonging to the genus Opegaster Ozaki, 1928, from an Indian eel, Anguilla bengalensis. Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, 3(2), 113–118. Opegaster apogonichthydis Yamaguti, 1938Yamaguti, S. (1938). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 21. Trematodes of fishes, IV. Kyoto: Yamaguti, S. Opegaster beliyai Pande, 1937Pande, В. P. (1937). Two new fish trematodes from Allahabad. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India, Biological Sciences, 7(2), 111–115. Opegaster bothi Yamaguti, 1970Yamaguti, S. (1970). Digenetic Trematodes of Hawaiian Fishes. Tokyo: Keigaku. Opegaster brevifistula Ozaki, 1928 Opegaster cameroni Caballero y Caballero & Caballero Rodríguez, 1969Caballero y Caballero, E. & Caballero Rodríguez, G. (1969). Un trematode nouveau parasite de Rana pipiens Schreber, 1872 de la République de Costa Rica (Amerique centrale). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée, 44, 539–546. Opegaster caulopsettae Manter, 1954Manter, H. W. (1954). Some digenetic trematodes from fishes of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 82, 475–568. Opegaster cryptocentri Yamaguti, 1958Yamaguti, S. (1958). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 52. Trematodes of fishes, XI. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 6, 369–384. Opegaster dactylopteri Yamaguti, 1970 Opegaster dendrochiri Yamaguti, 1970 Opegaster dermatogenyos Yamaguti, 1970 Opegaster ditrematis Yamaguti, 1942Yamaguti, S. (1942). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 39. Trematodes of fishes mainly from Naha. Transactions of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 3, 329–398. Opegaster elongata Yamaguti, 1959Yamaguti, S. (1959). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 54. Trematodes of fishes, XII. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 7, 241–262. Opegaster gobii Yamaguti, 1952Yamaguti, S. (1952). Parasitic worms mainly from Celebes. Part 1. New digenetic trematodes of fishes. Acta Medicinae Okayama, 8, 146–198. Opegaster gonorhynchi Gavrilyuk-Tkachuk, 1979Gavrilyuk-Tkachuk, L. P. (1979). New species of trematodes from commercial fishes of the Indian Ocean. Biologiya Morya, Vladivostok, 3, 83–86. Opegaster hawaiiensis Yamaguti, 1970 Opegaster hippocampi Shen, 1982Shen J. (1982). Two new digenetic trematodes from the seahorse Hippocampus trimaculatus. Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica, 13, 285–288. Opegaster iniistii Yamaguti, 1970 Opegaster lobulus Wang, 1977Wang, P. (1977). A survey of the parasites of eels from Fujian Province, China, II. Journal of Fujian Teachers' University, Natural Science, 1, 53–63. Opegaster longivesicula Yamaguti, 1952 Opegaster lutiani Bravo-Hollis & Manter, 1957Bravo-Hollis, M. & Manter, H. (1957). Trematodes of marine fishes of Mexican waters. X. Thirteen Digenea including nine new species and two new genera from Pacific coast. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 24, 35–48. Opegaster macrorchis Yamaguti, 1938 Opegaster mastacembalii Harshey, 1937Harshey, K. R. (1937). On two new trematodes of the genus Opegaster Ozaki, with a systematic discussion on the families Opecœlidæ Ozaki, 1925 and Coitocæcidæ Ozaki, 1928. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, A(3). Opegaster mehrii Harshey, 1937 Opegaster oplegnathi Wang, Wang & Zhang, 1992Wang Y., Wang P. & Zhang W. (1992). Opecoelid trematodes of marine fishes from Fujian Province. Wuyi Science Journal, 9, 67–89. Opegaster ouemoensis Bray & Justine, 2013Bray, R. & Justine, J. (2013). A digenean parasite in a mudskipper: Opegaster ouemoensis sp. n. (Digenea: Opecoelidae) in Periophthalmus argentilineatus Valenciennes (Perciformes: Gobiidae) in the mangroves of New Caledonia. Folia Parasitologica, 60(1), 7–16. Opegaster ovatus Ozaki, 1928 Opegaster paramacrorchis Hafeezullah, 1971Hafeezullah, M. (1971). Opecoelid trematodes of marine fishes of India. Parasitology, 62, 321–329. Opegaster parapristipomatis Yamaguti, 1934Yamaguti, S. (1934). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 2. Trematodes of fishes, I. Japanese Journal of Zoology, 5, 249–541. Opegaster plotosi Yamaguti, 1940Yamaguti, S. (1940). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan, Part 31. Trematodes of fishes, VII. Japanese Journal of Zoology, 9, 35–108. Opegaster pritchardae Overstreet, 1969Overstreet, R. M. (1969). Digenetic trematodes of marine teleost fishes from Biscayne Bay, Florida. Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany, 15, 119–176. Opegaster queenslandicus (Aken'Ova, 2007) Bray & Justine, 2013Aken’Ova, T. O. (2007). The taxonomic status of Opegaster Ozaki, 1928 and the description of four new species of Opecoelus Ozaki, 1925 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from marine teleosts in Australian waters. Systematic Parasitology, 67, 25–42. Opegaster rectus Ozaki, 1928 Opegaster syngnathi Yamaguti, 1934 Opegaster synodi Manter, 1947Manter, H. W. (1947). The digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of Tortugas, Florida. American Midland Naturalist, 38, 257–416. Opegaster tamori Yamaguti, 1938

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