Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Hemiurata > Superfamily Hemiuroidea > Family Merlucciotrematidae

Merlucciotrema Yamaguti, 1971

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

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Merlucciotrema praeclarum (Manter, 1934) Yamaguti, 1971

Literature

original description	Yamaguti, S. (1971). Synopsis of digenetic trematodes of vertebrates. 2 Vols. Keigaku Publishing Co., Tokyo. pp. 1-1074.
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	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Bray, R. A. (1996). Merlucciotrema praeclarum (Manter, 1934) (Digenea: Hemiuridae) redescribed from myctophiform and gadiform fishes of the North Atlantic. Systematic Parasitology. 33(2): 135-141.
taxonomy source	Vainutis, K. S.; Voronova, A. N. (2025). New insights in the systematics of the Hemiuroidea (Digenea: Hemiurata) based on the integrative taxonomy approach. Systematic Parasitology. 102:17.
taxonomy source	Martin, S. B.; De Silva, M.; Pathirana, E.; Rajapakse, R. (2023). Polyphyly of the Dinurinae Looss, 1907 (Digenea: Hemiuridae) and resurrection of the Mecoderinae Skrjabin & Guschanskaja, 1954 based on novel collection of Tubulovesicula laticaudi Parukhin, 1969 from marine elapid snakes in Sri Lanka. Parasitology International. 97: 102776.
identification resource	Gibson, D.I. (2002). Family Hemiuridae Looss, 1899. In: Gibson D. I., Jones, A. & Bray, R. A. (eds),. Keys to the Trematoda, vol. 1. Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 305–340.