Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Xiphidiata > Superfamily Gorgoderoidea > Family Dicrocoeliidae > Subfamily Dicrocoeliinae > Genus Brachylecithum

Brachylecithum microtesticulatum Timon-David, 1955

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Brachylecithum*	Shtrom, 1940	accepted genus name
*Dicrocoelium*	auct.	misapplied name
*Lutztrema*	auct.	misapplied name
*Lypersomum*	auct.	misapplied name

Literature

original description	Timon-David, J. (1955). Trématodes des Goélands de l'île de Riou. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 30 (5-6): 446–476.
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
redescription	Sonin, M. D. (1985). Key to identification of trematodes of piscivorous birds of the Palaearctic (Brachylaimida, Clinostomida, Cyclocoelida, Fasciolida, Notocotylida, Plagiorchida, Schistosomatida). Nauka, Moscow, 256 pp. (In Russian).