Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Apocreadiata > Superfamily Apocreadioidea > Family Megaperidae > Subfamily Apocreadiinae

Homalometron Stafford, 1904

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Apocreadium*	Manter, 1937	synonym

Children

Homalometron galaicus (Sanmartin, Alvarez, Quinteiro & Paniagua, 1995) Cribb & Bray, 1999

Literature

original description	Stafford, J. (1904). Trematodes from Canadian fishes. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 27: 481–495.
basis of record	Gibson, D.I. (2001). Digenea, 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. 136-142
additional source	Cribb, T. H.; Bray, R. A. (1999). A review of the Apocreadiidae Skrjabin, 1942 (Trematoda: Digenea) and description of Australian species. Systematic Parasitology. 44(1): 1-38.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
taxonomy source	Fayton, T. J.; Curran, S. S.; Andres, M. J.; Overstreet, R. M.; McAllister, C. T. (2016). Two New Species of Homalometron (Digenea: Apocreadiidae) from Nearctic Freshwater Fundulids, Elucidation of the Life Cycle of H. cupuloris , and Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of Some Congeners. Journal of Parasitology. 102(1): 94-104.
identification resource	Skrjabin, K. I., Koval, V. P. (1960). Suborder Allocreadiata Skrjabin, Petrov and Koval, 1958. Part two. Superfamily Lepocreadioidea Cable, 1956. Osnovy Trematodologii. 18, 13-377. (In Russian: English translation (1965) Israel Program for Scientific Translations. Cat. No. 1426, 1967-1272).
identification resource	Cribb, T. H. (2005). Family Apocreadiidae Skrjabin, 1942. In: Jones, A., Bray, R. A. & Gibson, D. I. (eds). Keys to the Trematoda, Volume 2. Wallingford, CABI Publishing and The Natural History Museum, 621-639.