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 gaevskayae Campbell & Bray, 1993

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	Campbell, R. A.; Bray, R. A. (1993). Lepidapedon spp. (Digenea: Lepocreadiidae) from deep-sea gadiform fishes of the NW Atlantic Ocean, including four new species. Systematic Parasitology. 24(2): 99-110.
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	Lumb, S. M.; Bray, R. A.; Rollinson, D. (1993). Partial small subunit (18S) rRNA gene sequences from fish parasites of the families Lepocreadiidae and Fellodistomidae (Digenea) and their use in phylogenetic analyses. Systematic Parasitology. 26(2): 141-149.
redescription	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.