Tellervotrema Gibson & Bray 1982

• Main Authors: Blend, Charles K., Kuramochi, Toshiaki, Dronen, Norman O.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Platyhelminthes; Trematoda; Plagiorchiida; Opecoelidae; Tellervotrema; Bering Sea; Pacific; Bray; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5670172; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5670172

Key to the species of Tellervotrema Gibson & Bray, 1982 1. Position of genital pore bifurcal or pre-bifurcal; egg size small (47.5– 66 × 24–42) or large (80–110 × 40–60); geographic locality either North Atlantic or North Pacific Oceans. 2 - Position of genital pore post-bifurcal; egg intermediate in size (70–82 × 40–52); geographic locality in North Pacific Ocean (off Japan). Tellervotrema katadara (Kuramochi, 2001) Kuramochi, 2009 2. Anterior extent of paired vitelline “bunches” in forebody (i.e. “ Tellervotrema vitellarium distribution”) to level of intestinal bifurcation or short distance posterior to it; cirrus pouch terminates posteriorly at level of intestinal bifurcation or just posterior to it; egg size small (47.5– 66 × 24–42); geographic locality in North Atlantic Ocean (off Scotland, Gulf of Mexico). Tellervotrema armstrongi Gibson & Bray, 1982 - Anterior extent of paired vitelline “bunches” in forebody (i.e. “ Tellervotrema vitellarium distribution”) to level noticeably anterior to intestinal bifurcation (i.e. level of mid-oesophagus); cirrus pouch terminates posteriorly at level well posterior to intestinal bifurcation; egg size large (80–110 × 40–60); geographic locality in North Pacific Ocean (Bering Sea, off Oregon and Japan). Tellervotrema beringi (Mamaev, 1965) Gibson & Bray, 1982 Published as part of Blend, Charles K., Kuramochi, Toshiaki & Dronen, Norman O., 2015, Re-evaluation of Tellervotrema katadara (Kuramochi, 2001) Kuramochi, 2009 (Opecoelidae: Plagioporinae) and supplementary morphological data for T. beringi (Mamaev, 1965) Gibson & Bray, 1982 with new host and locality, pp. 435-451 in Zootaxa 3986 (4) on page 449, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3986.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/235876