Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Lepocreadiata > Superfamily Lepocreadioidea > Family Lepocreadiidae

Prodistomum Linton, 1910

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Prodistomum orientale (Layman, 1930) Bray & Gibson, 1990
Prodistomum polonii (Molin, 1859) Bray & Gibson, 1990
Prodistomum priedei Bray & Merrett, 1998

Literature

original description	Linton, E. (1910). Helminth fauna of the Dry Tortugas. II. Trematodes. Papers from the Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institute of Washington. 4: 11–98.
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.; Cutmore, S. C.; Wee, N. Q.-X.; Browne, J. G.; Morales, P. D.; Pitt, K. A. (2024). Lepocreadiidae (Trematoda) associated with gelatinous zooplankton (Cnidaria and Ctenophora) and fishes in Australian and Japanese waters. Parasitology International. 102890.
additional source	Bray, R. A., Gibson, D. I. (1990). The Lepocreadiidae (Digenea) of fishes of the north-east Atlantic: review of the genera Opechona Looss, 1907 and Prodistomum Linton, 1910. Systematic Parasitology. 15: 159-202.
additional source	Bray, R. A.; Cribb, T. H. (1996). Two species of Prodistomum Linton, 1910 (Digenea: Lepocreadiidae) from marine fishes of Australia. Systematic Parasitology. 35(1): 59-67.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
identification resource	Bray, R. A. (2005). Family Lepocreadiidae Odhner, 1905. In: Jones, A., Bray,. R.A., Gibson, D.I. (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 2. CABI Publishing and the Natural History Museum, Wallingford, 545–602.