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- ↑ Manter, H. W. (1947). The digenetic trematodes of Tortugas, Florida. American Midland Naturalist, 38(2), 257–416.
- ↑ Ozaki, Y. (1935). Two new trematodes of the family Opistholebetidae Travassos. Proceedings of the Imperial Academy, 11, 244–246.
- ↑ Cable, R. M. (1956). Opistholebes diodontis n. sp., its development in the final host, the affinities of some amphistomatous trematodes from marine fishes, and the allocreadioid problem. Parasitology, 46, 1–13.
- ↑ Liu, S. F. (1999). Description of three new species of Opistholebetidae (Trematoda: Digenea). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 24, 265–271.
- ↑ Ozaki, Y. (1937). Studies on the trematode families Gyliauohenidae and Opistholebetidae, with special reference to lymph system. Journal of Science of the Hiroshima University, Zoology, 5, 125–244.
- ↑ Bilqees, F. & Nighat, Y. (1982). Two species of the genus Opistholebes Nicoll, 1915 from the fish Diodon hystrix of Karachi coast (Trematoda: Opistholebetidae). Pakistan Journal of Zoology, 14(1), 33–37.
- 1 2 Gupta, A. N. (1968). On three new species of Opistholebes (Opistholebetidae Fukui, 1929) from the globe fish, Tetraodon viridipunctatus (Gunther) from India. Journal of Helminthology, 42(3–4), 283–288.
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