Halipegus

Halipegus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Trematoda
Order:	Plagiorchiida
Family:	Derogenidae
Subfamily:	Halipeginae
Genus:	Halipegus Looss, 1899
Species
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Halipegus is a genus of trematode in the family Derogenidae.[1]

The status of H. eccentricus has been disputed. In 1998, it was suggested that it be regarded as a junior synonym of H. occidualis, but this was rejected in 1999.[2][3]

Species

The following species are accepted within Halipegus:[4]

• Halipegus africanus Dollfus, 1950
• Halipegus alhaussaini Saoud & Roshdy, 1970
• Halipegus ambalensis Gupta & Chopra, 1987
• Halipegus barabankiensis Choudhary, Ray & Agrawal, 2019
• Halipegus bulla (Fain, 1953) Skrjabin & Gushanskaja, 1955
• Halipegus ctenopomi Jones, 1982
• Halipegus dubius Klein, 1905
• Halipegus eccentricus Thomas, 1939
• Halipegus eschi Zelmer & Brooks, 2000
• Halipegus ghanensis Fischthal & Thomas, 1968
• Halipegus insularis Capron, Deblock & Brygoo, 1961
• Halipegus japonicus Yamaguti, 1936
• Halipegus kimberleyana (Porter, 1938) Skrjabin & Guschanskaya, 1955
• Halipegus mehransis Srivastava, 1933
• Halipegus occidualis Stafford, 1905
• Halipegus ovocaudatus (Vulpian, 1859) Looss, 1899
• Halipegus perplexus Simer, 1929
• Halipegus phrynobatrachi Maeder, 1969
• Halipegus psilonotae Leon-Regagnon & Romero-Mayén, 2013
• Halipegus rhodesiensis Beverley-Burton, 1963
• Halipegus spindale Srivastava, 1933
• Halipegus tafonensis Meskal, 1970
• Halipegus udaipurensis Gupta & Agrawal, 1967
• Halipegus zweifeli Moravec & Sey, 1989

References

1. Thomas, Lyell J. (1939). "Life cycle of a fluke, Halipegus eccentricus n. sp., found in the ears of frogs". Journal of Parasitology. 25 (3): 207–221. doi:10.2307/3272505. JSTOR 3272505.
2. McAlpine, Donald; Burt, Michael (1998). "Taxonomic status of Halipegus spp. (Digenea: Derogenidae) parasitic in the mouth and eustachian tubes of North American and Mexican amphibians" (PDF). Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington. 65: 10–15 – via BioNames.
3. Zelmer, D. A.; Esch, G. W. (February 1999). "Reevaluation of the taxonomic status of Halipegus occidualis Stafford, 1905 (Digenea: Hemiuridae)". The Journal of Parasitology. 85 (1): 157–160. ISSN 0022-3395. PMID 10207388.
4. "Halipegus". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 13 December 2021.