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

Robphildollfusium fractum (Rudolphi, 1819) Paggi & Orecchia, 1963

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Robphildollfusium*	Paggi & Orecchia, 1963	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Distoma fractum*	Rudolphi, 1819	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	Bray, R. A.; Waeschenbach, A.; Cribb, T. H.; Weedall, G. D.; Dyal, P.; Littlewood, D. T. J. (2009). The phylogeny of the Lepocreadioidea (Platyhelminthes: Digenea) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial genes: implications for their systematics and evolution. Acta Parasitologica. 54: 310-329.
additional source	Radujkovic, B.; Sundic, D. (2014). Parasitic flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea, Digenea, Cestoda) of fishes from the Adriatic Sea. Natura Montenegrina. 13 (1):7–280.
additional source	Kornyychuk, Y. M. (2024). The First Find of Trematodes in the Black Sea Invader Sarpa salpa (Linnaeus, 1758) (Pisces: Teleostei, Sparidae) and Notes on the Ways of Salema Trematode Fauna Formation in This Water Body. Russian Journal of Biological Invasions. 15(3): 354-363.
additional source	Torres, J.; Kacem, H.; Eira, C.; Neifar, L.; Miquel, J. (2014). Total mercury and selenium concentrations in Sarpa salpa and Balistes capriscus and in their respective Digenean endoparasites Robphildollfusium fractum and Neoapocreadium chabaudi from Tunisia. Acta Parasitologica. 59 (4): 580–585.
additional source	Bakhoum, A. J.; Sène, A.; Ndiaye, P. I.; Bâ, C. T.; Miquel, J. (2012). Spermiogenesis and the spermatozoon ultrastructure of Robphildollfusium fractum (Digenea: Gyliauchenidae), an intestinal parasite of Sarpa salpa (Pisces: Teleostei). Comptes Rendus Biologies. 335 (7): 435–444.
additional source	Cribb, T.H., Bray, R.A., Littlewood, D.T.J., Pichelin, S., Herniou, E.A. (2001). The Digenea. In: Littlewood, D.T.J. & Bray, R.A. (Eds). Interrelationships of the Platyhelminthes. London: Taylor & Francis, 168-185.
redescription	Boukadoum, A; Tazerouiti, F. (2024). Digenea community structure of the Salema, Sarpa salpa (Linnaeus, 1758) (Teleostei, Sparidae), from the Central coast of Algeria. Helminthologia. 61, 1: 59 – 75.
redescription	Paggi, L.; Orecchia, P. (1963). Revisione della pozione sistematica di Distoma fractum Rudolphi, 1819 e proposta di un nuovo genere Robphildollfusium gen. nov. e di una nuova famiglia Robphildollfusidae [sic] fam. nov. per questa specie. Parassitologia. 5: 131-143.
redescription	Bartoli, P. (1987). Caractères adaptatifs originaux des digènes intestinaux de Sarpa salpa (Teleostei, Sparidae) et leur interprétation en termes d'évolution. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 62 (6): 542–576.
new combination reference	Paggi, L.; Orecchia, P. (1963). Revisione della pozione sistematica di Distoma fractum Rudolphi, 1819 e proposta di un nuovo genere Robphildollfusium gen. nov. e di una nuova famiglia Robphildollfusidae [sic] fam. nov. per questa specie. Parassitologia. 5: 131-143.

Genbank

Citation

WoRMS (2025). Robphildollfusium fractum (Rudolphi, 1819) Paggi & Orecchia, 1963. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=108963