Note "Taxonomic remark: Recently Achatz et al., (2021) suggested that the genus
Cheloniodiplostomum Sudarikov, 1960 should be considered as a
junior synonym of Herpetodiplostomum Dubois, 1936, basing their
proposal on the fact that the host specificity (turtles vs. alligators),
the limits of the vitellarium (anterior to the acetabulum vs. posterior
to the acetabulum), and the presence/absence of papillae on the
holdfast would not be sufficient characteristics to differentiate both
genera. Although these authors demonstrate that there are species
of both genera that present papillae on the holdfast, they failed in
found any Cheloniodiplostomum species parasitizing alligators.
Molecularly, they have sequenced a single species precluding any
comparison between Cheloniodiplostomum and Herpetodiplostomum.
We follow the classification first proposed by Sudarikov
(1960) then followed by subsequent authors (Dubois, 1968, 1982;
Niewiadomska, 2002; Mascarenhas & Müller, 2021)." for taxon Cheloniodiplostomum Sudarikov, 1960 has been added by David Gibson via the webinterface on 2024-04-11T19:29:04+00:00
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