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

Merlucciotrema praeclarum (Manter, 1934) Yamaguti, 1971

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Merlucciotrema*	Yamaguti, 1971	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Sterrhurus praeclarus*	Manter, 1934	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	Overstreet, R. M., J. O. Cook, and R. W. Heard. 2009. Trematoda (Platyhelminthes) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 419–486 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
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. (1996). Merlucciotrema praeclarum (Manter, 1934) (Digenea: Hemiuridae) redescribed from myctophiform and gadiform fishes of the North Atlantic. Systematic Parasitology. 33(2): 135-141.
redescription	Hussein, N.; Khalifa, R.; Abd-Elghaffar, Z.; Hussein, A.-N. (2021). First record of Merlucciotrema praeclarum from Caesio lunaris (Perciformes: Caesionidae) and Cyatholecithochirium sp. from Epinephelus tauvina (Perciformes: Serranidae) from the Red Sea in Egypt. SVU-International Journal of Veterinary Sciences. 4(4): 43-55.
redescription	Nguyen, V. H., Ha, D. N., Tran, T. B., Nguyen, M. H., Hoang, V. H. (2012). Redescription of hemiurid species parasitic in marine fishes frome Ha Long Bay, Viet Nam. Vietnam Journal of Biology. 34 (3): 288–293. (In Vietnamese).
new combination reference	Yamaguti, S. (1971). Synopsis of digenetic trematodes of vertebrates. 2 Vols. Keigaku Publishing Co., Tokyo. pp. 1-1074.