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 rachion (Cobbold, 1858) Stafford, 1904

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

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

Species group names

*Distoma rachion*	Cobbold, 1858	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	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.
additional source	Køie, M. (1984). Digenetic trematodes from Gadus morhua L. (Osteichthyes, Gadidae) from Danish and adjacent waters, with special reference to their life-histories. Ophelia. 23 (2): 195-222.
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.
additional source	Polyansky, Y.I. (1955). Materialy po parazitologii ryb severnykh morei SSSR. Parazity ryb Barentsova morya. [The parasites of fish of northern marine waters of the USSR. Parasites of the fish of the Barents Sea.]. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Akademii Nauk SSSR, Leningrad (Collection of works on parasitology. Translation by the Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem 1966). 19:5-170, figs. 1-37, tabs. 1-24.
additional source	Bray, R.A. (1979). Digenea in marine fishes from the eastern seaboard of Canada. Journal of Natural History. 13, 399-431.
additional source	Gibson, D.I. (1996) Guide to the parasites of Canadian fishes. Part IV. Trematoda. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 373 pp.
additional source	Nicoll, W. (1910). On the entozoa of fishes from the Firth of Clyde. Parasitology. 3: 322-359.
additional source	Brinkmann, A. (1956). Trematoda. Zoology of Iceland. 2(11): 1-34.
additional source	Køie, M. (2000). Metazoan parasites of teleost fishes from atlantic waters off the Faroe Islands. Ophelia. 52(1): 25-44.
additional source	Ronald, K. (1960). The metazoan parasites of the Heterosomata of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. VI. Digrenea. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 38: 923–937.
additional source	Overstreet, R. M., J. O. Cook, and R. W. Heard. 2009. Trematoda (Platyhelminthes) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 419–486 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
redescription	Manter, H. W. (1934). Some digenetic trematodes from deep-water fish of Tortugas, Florida. Papers from Tortugas Laboratory. 28: 257-345.
redescription	Greze, V. N., Delyamure, S. L. & Nikolaeva, V. M. (Eds.). (1975). Key to the parasites of vertebrates of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 551 pp. (In Russian).
redescription	Bray, R. A. (1973). Some digenetic trematodes in fishes from the Bay of Biscay and nearby waters. Bulletin Br Mus Nat Hist (Zool). 26, 151-183.
redescription	Manter, H. W. (1926). Some North American fish trematodes. Illinois Biological Monographs. 10, 7-138.
redescription	Linton, E. (1940). Trematodes from fishes mainly from the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 88: 1-172.
redescription	Dawes, B. (1947). The Trematoda of British Fishes. Ray Society, London. 364 pp.
redescription	Skrjabin, K. I., Koval, V. P. (1960). Suborder Allocreadiata Skrjabin, Petrov and Koval, 1958. Part two. Superfamily Lepocreadioidea Cable, 1956. Osnovy Trematodologii. 18, 13-377. (In Russian: English translation (1965) Israel Program for Scientific Translations. Cat. No. 1426, 1967-1272).
redescription	Amosova, I. S. (1955). On the occurrence of metacercariae of digenetic trematodes in certain polychaetes in the Barents Sea. Zoollogicheskii Zhurnal. 34, 286-290. (In Russian).
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.
redescription	Miller, M. J. (1941). A critical study of Stafford's report on "Trematodes of Canadian fishes" based on his trematode collection. Canadian Journal of Research. 19, 28-52.
new combination reference	Stafford, J. (1904). Trematodes from Canadian fishes. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 27: 481–495.