Neoplagioporus

Neoplagioporus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Trematoda
Order:	Plagiorchiida
Family:	Opecoelidae
Subfamily:	Plagioporinae
Genus:	Neoplagioporus Shimazu, 1990 [1]

Neoplagioporus is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae.

Species

• Neoplagioporus ayu (Takahashi, 1928) Shimazu, 1990 ^{[2] [1]}
• Neoplagioporus elongatus (Goto & Ozaki, 1930) [emend. Gibson, 1976] Shimazu, 1990 ^{[3] [4] [1]}
• Neoplagioporus kajika Urabe & Higa, 2006 ^[5]
• Neoplagioporus zacconis (Yamaguti, 1934) Shimazu, 1990 ^{[6] [1]}

References

1. Shimazu, T. (1990). Trematodes of a new genus, Neoplagioporus gen. n. (Digenea: Opecoelidae: Plagioporinae), and an unidentified opecoelid from freshwater fishes of Japan. Japanese Journal of Parasitology, 39(4), 384–396.
2. Takahashi, S. (1928). On a new trematode Podocotyle ayu n. sp. from the intestine of Plecoglossus altivelis (T. and S.). Arbeiten aus der Medizinischen Universität zu Okayama, 1, 51–56.
3. Goto, S. & Ozaki, Y. (1930). Brief notes on new trematodes, III. Japanese Journal of Zoology, 3, 73–82.
4. Gibson, D. I. (1976). Monogenea and Digenea from fishes. Discovery Reports, 36, 182–266.
5. Urabe, M. & Higa, E. (2006). A new trematode species Neoplagioporus kajika sp. n. (Digenea: Opecoelidae), parasitic in the Japanese fluvial sculpin, Cottus pollux (Osteichthyes: Scorpaeniformes: Cottidae), from Japan. Folia Parasitologica, 53(3), 208–210.
6. Yamaguti, S. (1934). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 2. Trematodes of fishes, I. Japanese Journal of Zoology, 5, 249–541.

Further reading

• Shimazu, T. (2017). Digeneans parasitic in freshwater fishes (Osteichthyes) of Japan, X. Opecoelidae, Plagioporinae. Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Series A, 43(1), 1–28.