Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Cestoda > Subclass Nephroposticophora > Subclass Eucestoda > Order Cyclophyllidea > Family Hymenolepididae > Genus Microsomacanthus

Microsomacanthus microsoma (Creplin, 1829)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Microsomacanthus*	Lopez-Neyra, 1942	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Taenia microsoma*	Creplin, 1829	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Bray, R.A. (2001). Cestoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 146-149
additional source	Vinogradova, A. A.; Skvortsov, V. (2022). Duck helminths of the North Western Russia and Estonia. Parazitologiya. 56 (2), 108-125.
additional source	Schwantes, U. (2023). Impact of anthropogenous environmental factors on the marine ecosystem of trophically transmitted helminths and hosting seabirds: Focus on North Atlantic, North Sea, Baltic and the Arctic seas. Helminthologia. 60(4): 300-326.