We herein review all published molecular studies (life history, taxonomy, and phylogeny)
and summarize all GenBank sequences and primer sets for the “fish blood flukes”. Further …

Abstract Fish blood flukes (Digenea: Aporocotylidae) are important pathogens of fishes in
aquaculture. Severe infections have been associated with mass mortality events in cultured …

Blood flukes (Aporocotylidae) of actinopterygians (bony fishes) have been shown to infect
freshwater gastropods and marine polychaetes as intermediate hosts. However, no life cycle …

The family Aporocotylidae is recognized as having the widest intermediate host usage in the
Digenea. Currently, intermediate host groups are clearly correlated with definitive host …

Sanguinicola comprises 26 species that collectively infect fishes from 8 orders
(Cypriniformes, Characiformes, Siluriformes, Esociformes, Salmoniformes, Labriformes …

We report new collections of the Aporocotylidae from Australia, French Polynesia, and
Japan. A new species of Cardicola Short, 1953 is described from Scomberomorus …

Parasites exert a profound effect on biological processes. In animal communication, parasite
effects on signalers are well-known drivers of the evolution of communication systems …

Elopicola bristowi sp. n. infects the blood vascular system of Hawaiian ladyfish, Elops
hawaiensis, in the Eastern Sea. It differs from the only nominal congener Elopicola …

Abstract Seven species of Psettarium (Digenea: Aporocotylidae), including four new
species, are reported from tetraodontiform fishes from off coastal east Queensland …

Trematodes are the richest class of platyhelminths in the marine environment, infecting all
classes of marine vertebrates as sexual adults and many phyla of marine invertebrates as …