Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Monogenea > Subclass Polyopisthocotylea > Superorder Oligonchoinea > Order Mazocraeidea > Family Diclidophoridae > Genus Diclidophora

Diclidophora merlangi (Kuhn, 1829) Krøyer, 1838

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Diclidophora*	Krøyer, 1838	accepted genus name
*Dactycotyle*	Van Beneden & Hesse, 1863	synonym
*Dactylocotyle*	Parona & Perugia, 1889	synonym

Species group names

*Octostoma merlangi*	Kuhn, 1829	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	Williams, H.H. & MacKenzie, K. (2003). Marine parasites as pollution indicators: an update. Parasitology 126 S27-S41.
additional source	Smith, J.W. (1969). The distribution of one monogenean and two copepod parasites of whiting, Merlangius merlangius (L.), caught in British waters. Nytt Magasin för Zoologi 17(1):57-63, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-6.
redescription	Rubec, L. A.; Dronen, N. O. (1994). Revision of the genus Diclidophora Krøyer, 1838 (Monogenea: Diclidophoridae), with the proposal of Macrouridophora n. g. Systematic Parasitology. 28(3): 159-185.
redescription	Alojayri, G.; Al-Quraishy, S.; Al-Shaebi, E.; Mohammed, O. B.; Abdel-Gaber, R. (2024). Morphological and genetic identification of the gill monogenean parasite (Diclidophora merlangi) that infects Twobar Seabream Fish (Acanthopagrus bifasciatus) in the Arabian Gulf, Saudi Arabia. Helminthologia. 61(2): 184-193.