Thaparotrema Gupta, 1955

Rensburg, Candice Jansen van, van As, Jo G. & King, Pieter H., 2013, New records of digenean parasites of Clarias gariepinus (Pisces: Clariidae) from the Okavango Delta, Botswana, with description of Thaparotrema botswanensis sp. n. (Plathelminthes: Trematoda), African Invertebrates 54 (2), pp. 431-431 : 441

Genus Thaparotrema Gupta, 1955

The genus Thaparotrema was erected for Thaparotrema vittalani Gupta, 1955 that was described from the intestine of the bagrid catfish Rita rita (Hamilton, 1822) in India ( Gupta 1955). Scholz (2008) transferred species with a small, elongate or fusiform body covered with tegumental spines, having no prepharynx and with sinuous excretory system, which had been previously placed in the genus Opisthorchis Blanchard, 1895 , to Thaparotrema . Thaparotrema piscicola ( Odhner, 1902) was described by Odhner (1902) from the gall bladder of Gymnarchus niloticus from Sudan.