Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Hemiurata > Superfamily Hemiuroidea > Family Accacoeliidae > Subfamily Accacoeliinae > Genus Accacoelium

Accacoelium contortum (Rudolphi, 1819) Looss, 1899

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Accacoelium*	Monticelli, 1893	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Distoma contortum*	Rudolphi, 1819	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	Kohn, A.; Fernandes, B.M.M.; Cohen, S.C. (2007). South American trematode parasites of fishes. CNPq, FIOCRUZ. 318 pp.
additional source	Threlfall, W. (1967). Some parasites recovered from the ocean sunfish, Mola mola (L.) in Newfoundland. Canadian Field-Naturalist, Ottawa 81:168-172, fig. 1, tabs. 1-2. (vii/ix-1967)
additional source	Santoro, M., M. Palomba, S. Mattiucci, D. Osca & F. Crocetta. (2020). New Parasite Records for the Sunfish Mola mola in the Mediterranean Sea and Their Potential Use as Biological Tags for Long-Distance Host Migration. Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 7:1-8.
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	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.
redescription	Bray, R. A., Gibson, D. I. (1977). The Accacoeliidae (Digenea) of fishes from the north-east Atlantic. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoology Series). 31, 53–99.
redescription	Dollfus, R.P. (1935). Sur quelques parasites de poissons récoltés à Castiglione (Algérie). [On some fish parasites collected in Castiglione (Algeria).]. Bulletin de la Station d'Aquiculture et de Pêche Castiglione. 1(2): 1-48.
redescription	Ahuir-Baraja, A. E.; Padrós, F.; Palacios-Abella, J. F.; Raga, J. A.; Montero, F. E. (2015). Accacoelium contortum (Trematoda: Accacoeliidae) a trematode living as a monogenean: morphological and pathological implications. Parasites & Vectors. 8:540: 1–11.
redescription	Skrjabin, K. I., Guschanskaja, L. H. (1959). Suborder Hemiurata (Markevitsch, 1951) Skrjabin et Guschanskaja, 1954. Family Accacoeliidae Looss, 1912. Osnovy Trematodologii. 16, 99-183. (In Russian).
redescription	Villalba S., C. & J. Fernández Bargiela. (1985). Parásitos de Mola ramsayi (Giglioli, 1883) (Pisces: Molidae) en Chile. Boletín de la Sociedad de Biologia de Concepción. 56:71-78.
redescription	Timon-David, P., Musso, J. J. (1971). Les trématodes digènes du poisson-lune (Mola mola) dans le Golfe de Marseille (Accacoeliidae et Didymozoidae). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 46 (3): 233–256.
redescription	Linton, E. (1940). Trematodes from fishes mainly from the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 88: 1-172.
new combination reference	Looss, A. (1899). Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Trematoden-Fauna Aegyptens, zugleich Versuch einer natürlichen Gliederung des Genus Distomum Retzius. Zoologische Jahrbücher. 12: 521-784.