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 discoveryi 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	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.