Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Echinostomata > Superfamily Echinostomatoidea > Family Himasthlidae > Genus Himasthla

Himasthla leptosoma (Creplin, 1829) Dietz, 1909

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Himasthla*	Dietz, 1909	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Distoma leptosoma*	Creplin, 1829	objective synonym
*Distoma leptosomum*	Creplin, 1829	synonym

Literature

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	Rayski, C.; Fahmy, M. A. M. (1962). Investigation on some trematodes of birds from the East Scotland. Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde. 22: 186–195.
additional source	Johns, P.; Newman, L.J.; Holleman, J.J.; Dawson, E.W.; Sterrer, W.; Allison, F.R.; Diggles, B.K.; Andrews, J.R.H.; Hine, P.M.; McKenna, P.B.; Poulin, R. (2009). Phylum Platyhelminthes: flatworms, tapeworms, flukes, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 102-128.
additional source	Galaktionov, K. V.; Solovyeva, A. I.; Miroliubov, A. (2021). Elucidation of Himasthla leptosoma (Creplin, 1829) Dietz, 1909 (Digenea, Himasthlidae) life cycle with insights into species composition of the north Atlantic Himasthla associated with periwinkles Littorina spp. Parasitology Research.
additional source	Smogorzhevskaya, L.A. (1976). Helminths of diving and marsh birds of the fauna of the Ukraine. Naukova Dumka, Kiev, 415 pp. (In Russian).
redescription	Gaevskaya, A. V. (2014). Parasite, diseases and pests of mussels (Mytilus, Mytilidae). X. Trematoda. EKOSI-Gidrofizika, Sevastopol: 255 pp. (In Ukrainian).
redescription	Dietz, E. (1910). Die Echinostomiden der Vögel. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Suppl. 12, 3: 265–512.
redescription	Skrjabin, K. I.; Baschkirova, E. Y. (1956). Family Echinostomatidae Dietz, 1909. Osnovy Trematodologii. 12: 50–930.
redescription	Lühe, M. (1909). Parasitische Plattwürmer. I: Trematodes. Süsswasserfauna Deutschlands. 17, 1-217.
redescription	Iskova, N. I. (1985). The fauna of the Ukraine. Trematodes: Echinostomatata. Fauna Ukrayiny. 34 (4): 1–197. (In Ukrainian).
redescription	Yamaguti S. (1975). A synoptical review of life histories of digenetic trematodes of vertebrates with special reference to the morphology of their larval forms. Tokyo, Keigaku Publishing Co. pp. LXI I + 590 + 219 plates.
redescription	Loos-Frank, B. (1967). Experimentelle Untersuchungen uber Bau, Entwicklung und Systematik der Himasthinae (Trematoda, Echinostomatidae) des Nordseeraumes. Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde. 28: 299–351.
redescription	Sonin, M. D. (1985). Key to identification of trematodes of piscivorous birds of the Palaearctic (Brachylaimida, Clinostomida, Cyclocoelida, Fasciolida, Notocotylida, Plagiorchida, Schistosomatida). Nauka, Moscow, 256 pp. (In Russian).
new combination reference	Dietz, E. (1909). Die Echinostomiden der Vögel. Dissertation, Konigsberg, 37 pp.
biology source	James, B. (1968). The occurrence of larval Digenea in ten species of intertidal prosobranch molluscs in Cardigan Bay. Journal of Natural History. 2 (3): 329–343.