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

Lepidapedon desclersae Bray & Gibson, 1995

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lepidapedon*	Stafford, 1904	accepted genus name
*Lepodora*	Odhner, 1905	synonym

Literature

original description	Bray, R. A.; Gibson, D. I. (1995). The Lepocreadiidae (Digenea) of fishes from the north-east Atlantic: a review of the genus Lepidapedon Stafford, 1904. Systematic Parasitology. 31(2): 81-132.
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	Pérez-del-Olmo, A.; Georgieva, S.; Dallarés, S.; Constenla, M.; Kostadinova, A.; Carrassón, M. (2023). Linking integrative taxonomy and ecology: Diversity and population structure of two platyhelminth parasites (Digenea: Lepidapedidae) of sympatric deep-sea fishes in the Western Mediterranean. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 192: 103948.
additional source	Køie, M. (2000). Metazoan parasites of teleost fishes from atlantic waters off the Faroe Islands. Ophelia. 52(1): 25-44.
additional source	Bray, R. A.; Des Clers, S. A. (1992). Multivariate analyses of metrical features in the Lepidapedon elongatum (Lebour, 1908) species-complex (Digenea, Lepocreadiidae) in deep and shallow water gadiform fishes of the NE Atlantic. Systematic Parasitology. 21(3): 223-232.
redescription	Pérez-del-Olmo, A.; Dallarés, S.; Georgieva, S.; Constenla, M.; Kostadinova, A.; Carrassón, M. (2019). Species of Lepidapedon Stafford, 1904 (Digenea: Lepidapedidae) from deep-sea fishes in the Western Mediterranean: molecular and morphological evidence. Systematic Parasitology.
redescription	Dallarés, S.; Georgieva, S.; Kostadinova, A.; Carrassón, M.; Gibson, D. I.; Pérez-del-Olmo, A. (2013). Morphometric and molecular characterisation of specimens of Lepidapedon Stafford, 1904 (Digenea: Lepidapedidae) from the deep-sea fish Mora moro (Risso) (Teleostei: Moridae) in the western Mediterranean. Systematic Parasitology. 85 (3): 243–253.