Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Monogenea > Subclass Monopisthocotylea > Order Dactylogyridea > Suborder Dactylogyrinea > Family Diplectanidae > Genus Lamellodiscus

Lamellodiscus elegans Bychowsky, 1957

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lamellodiscus*	Johnston & Tiegs, 1922	accepted genus name
*Furnestinia*	Euzet & Audouin, 1959	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Bray, R.A. (2001). Monogenea, 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. 142-146
additional source	Mladineo, I. & Marsic-Lusic, J. (2006). Host switch of Lamellodiscus elegans (Monogenea: Monopisthocotylea)and Sparicotyle chrysophrii (Monogenea: Polyopisthocotylea) between cage-reared sparids. Veterinary Research Communications 31, 153-160
additional source	Mladineo, I. (2004). Monogenean parasites in Adriatic cage-reared fish. Acta Adriat. 45: 65-73
additional source	Strona, G.; Stefani, F.; Galli, P. (2010). Monogenoidean parasites of Italian marine fish: An updated checklist. Italian Journal of Zoology. 77(4): 419-437.
additional source	Derbel, H.; Châari, M.; Neifar, L. (2022). Checklist of the Monogenea (Platyhelminthes) parasitic in Tunisian aquatic vertebrates. Helminthologia. 59(2): 179-199.
additional source	Nitta, M.; Nagasawa, K. (2018). An annotated checklist of the monogeneans (Platyhelminthes) reported from Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan (1936–2017), with four new Japanese records and one new prefectural record for fish monogeneans. Fauna Ryukyuana. 46, 11-34.
additional source	Boukadoum, A.; Tazerouti, F. (2024(2025)). Comprehensive annotated checklist of monogenean diversity and distribution in Algerian marine fish. Systematic Parasitology. 102:13.