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

Prodistomum polonii (Molin, 1859) Bray & Gibson, 1990

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Prodistomum*	Linton, 1910	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Distomum polonii*	Molin, 1859	synonym
*Lepidapedon carcini*	Mordvinova, 1985	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	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	Antar, R., Gargouri Ben Abdallah, L. (2013). Trematodes in fishes of the genus Diplodus (Teleostei, Sparidae) from Bizerte Lagoon (Northern coast of Tunisia). Bulletin of the European Association of fish Pathologists. 33: 44–52.
additional source	Öztürk, T.; Özer, A. (2016). Digenean parasites of Atlantic horse mackerel (Trachurus trachurus) in the Turkish Black Sea coast. Ege Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 33 (1): 35–40.
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	Kacem, H.; Miquel, J. (2020). Sperm ultrastructure of Prodistomum polonii (Digenea, Lepocreadioidea), an intestinal parasite of the Atlantic horse mackerel, Trachurus trachurus (Teleostei, Carangidae), from the Gulf of Gabes, Mediterranean Sea. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 286: 100-107.
redescription	Bray, R. A., Gibson, D. I. (1990). The Lepocreadiidae (Digenea) of fishes of the north-east Atlantic: review of the genera Opechona Looss, 1907 and Prodistomum Linton, 1910. Systematic Parasitology. 15: 159-202.
new combination reference	Bray, R. A., Gibson, D. I. (1990). The Lepocreadiidae (Digenea) of fishes of the north-east Atlantic: review of the genera Opechona Looss, 1907 and Prodistomum Linton, 1910. Systematic Parasitology. 15: 159-202.