Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Monogenea > Subclass Polyopisthocotylea > Order Chimaericolidea > Family Chimaericolidae > Genus Chimaericola

Chimaericola leptogaster (Leuckart, 1830) Brinkmann, 1942

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Chimaericola*	Brinkmann, 1942	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Octobothrium leptogaster*	Leuckart, 1830	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	Boukadoum, A.; Tazerouti, F. (2024(2025)). Comprehensive annotated checklist of monogenean diversity and distribution in Algerian marine fish. Systematic Parasitology. 102:13.
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	Dienske, H. (1968). A survey of the metazoan parasites of the rabbit-fish, Chimaera monstrosa L. (Holocephali). Netherlands Journal of Sea Research 4(1):32-58.
additional source	Brinkmann, A. (1940). Contribution to our knowledge of the monogenetic trematodes. Bergens Museum Arbok, Naturv. Recce 1939/40 1-117.
redescription	Pascoe, P. L. (1987). Monogenean parasites of deep-sea fishes from the Rockall Trough (N.E. Atlantic) including a new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 67(03): 603-622.