Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Hemiurata > Superfamily Azygioidea > Family Azygiidae > Subfamily Azygiinae > Genus Otodistomum

Otodistomum plunketi Fyfe, 1953

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Otodistomum*	Stafford, 1904	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Fyfe, M. L. (1953). Otodistomum plunketi n.sp., a large trematode from a Lord Plunket's shark, Scymnodon plunketi (Waite). Parasitology. 43 (3-4): 187-190.
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	Johns, P.; Newman, L.J.; Holleman, J.J.; Dawson, E.W.; Sterrer, W.; Allison, F.R.; Diggles, B.K.; Andrews, J.R.H.; Hine, P.M.; McKenna, P.B.; Poulin, R. (2009). Phylum Platyhelminthes: flatworms, tapeworms, flukes, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 102-128.
additional source	Kohn, A.; Fernandes, B.M.M.; Cohen, S.C. (2007). South American trematode parasites of fishes. CNPq, FIOCRUZ. 318 pp.
redescription	Gibson, D. I. & Bray, R. A. 1977. The Azygiidae, Hirudinellidae, Ptychogonimidae, Sclerodistomidae and Syncoeliidae of fishes from the north-east Atlantic. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoology) 32: 167–245.
redescription	Shvetsova, L. S. (1994). Trematodes of cartilaginous fishes of the Pacific Ocean. Izvestiya Tikhookeanskogo Nauchno-Issledovatel'skogo Instituta Rybnogo Khozyaistva i Okeanografii. 117: 46–64. (In Russian).
redescription	Skrjabin, K. I., Guschanskaja, L. H. (1958). Suborder Azygiata La Rue, 1957. Osnovy Trematodologii. 14, 667-819. (In Russian).
redescription	Wang, P.-q., Wang, Y.-y. (1993). Some digenetic trematodes of marine fishes from Fujian Province. Journal of Fujian Normal University, Natural Science. 9, 66–73. (In Chinese).
biology source	Brickle, P.; Pompert, J.; Poulding, D. (2002). The occurrence of Otodistomum plunketi Fyfe, 1953 (Digenea: Azygiidae), in rays (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae) around the Falkland Islands. Comparative Parasitology. 69 (1): 86–89.