Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Hemiurata > Superfamily Hemiuroidea > Family Didymozoidae > Subfamily Didymozoinae > Tribe Didymozoini > Genus Platocystis

Platocystis alalongae Yamaguti, 1938

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Platocystis*	Yamaguti, 1938	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Yamaguti, S. (1938). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 24. Trematodes of fishes, V. Japanese Journal of Zoology. 8, 15–74.
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	Mladineo, I.; Bott, N. J.; Nowak, B. F.; Block, B. A. (2010). Multilocus phylogenetic analyses reveal that habitat selection drives the speciation of Didymozoidae (Digenea) parasitizing Pacific and Atlantic bluefin tunas. Parasitology. 137 (6): 1013-1025.
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.
redescription	Pozdnyakov, S. E. (1996). Trematode suborder Didymozoata. Tikhookeanskii Naucho-Issledovatel'skii Rybokhozyaistvennyi Tsentr Vladivostok. 319 pp. (In Russian).
redescription	Pozdnyakov, S. E. (1987). On the systematic position of several representatives of the subfamily Didymozoinae (Trematoda: Didymozoidae). In: Mamaev, Y. L. (Ed.). Helminths and diseases caused by them. Dal'nevostochnii Nauchnii Tsentr, Vladivostok.: 52-59.
redescription	Skrjabin, K. I. (1955). Suborder Didymozoata Skrjabin & Schulz, 1947. Osnovy Trematodologii. 11, 5-254. (In Russian).