Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Xiphidiata > Superfamily Brachycladioidea > Family Brachycladiidae > Subfamily Brachycladiinae > Genus Synthesium

Synthesium tursionis (Marchi, 1873) Stunkard & Alvey, 1930

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Synthesium*	Stunkard & Alvey, 1930	accepted genus name
*Hadwenius*	Price, 1932	synonym
*Leucasiella*	Krotov & Delyamure, 1952	synonym

Species group names

*Distoma tursionis*	Marchi, 1873	synonym
*Hadwenius tursionis*	(Marchi, 1873)	synonym
*Odhneriella elongata*	(Ozaki, 1935) Yamaguti, 1958	synonym
*Orthosplanchnus elongatus*	Ozaki, 1935	synonym
*Synthesium elongatum*	(Ozaki, 1935) Ebert, Mülller, Marigo, Valente, Cremer & da Silva, 2017	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Orecchia, Paola; Marina Ortis; Lia Paggi (2006). Digenei, in: Revisione della Checklist della fauna marina italiana.
additional source	Ghosh, A.; Sreeraj, C. R. (2023). Fauna of India Checklist: Platyhelminthes. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. 49 pp.
additional source	Lehnert, K.; Poulin, R.; Presswell, B. (2019). Checklist of marine mammal parasites in New Zealand and Australian waters. Journal of Helminthology. 93(06): 649-676.
redescription	Skrjabin, K. I. (1948). Superfamily Fascioloidea Stiles et Goldberger 1910. Osnovy Trematodologii. 2: 7–336. (In Russian).
redescription	Marigo, J., A. C. P. Vicente, A. L. S. Valente, L. Measures and C. P. Santos (2008) Redescription of Synthesium pontoporiae n. comb. with notes on S. tursionis and S. seymouri n. comb. (Digenea: Brachycladiidae Odhner, 1905). Journal of Parasitology, 94, 505-514.
redescription	Price, E. W. (1932). The trematode parasites of marine mammals. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 81(2936): 1-68.
redescription	de Quadros, R. M.; de Castilho, P. V.; de Souza, G. C.; Alves, C. F.; Alves, E.; da Silva, N. (2024). Synthesium pantoporiae y Synthesium tursionis (Digenea; Brachycladiidae Odhner, 1905) em Pontoporia blainvillei Gervais & d'Orbigny, 1844 (Cetacea, Pontoporiidae) en el sur del estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil. Neotropical Helminthology. 18 (2).
redescription	Shiozaki, A.; Amano, M.; Fernández, M.; Fraija-Fernández, N. (2019). Revision of the taxonomic status of Synthesium elongatum (Ozaki, 1935) (Brachycladiidae), an intestinal digenean of narrow-ridged finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis). Journal of Veterinary Medical Science. 81(4): 601-607.
redescription	Greze, V. N., Delyamure, S. L. & Nikolaeva, V. M. (Eds.). (1975). Key to the parasites of vertebrates of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 551 pp. (In Russian).
new combination reference	Price, E. W. (1932). The trematode parasites of marine mammals. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 81(2936): 1-68.
biology source	Fraija-Fernández, N.; Aznar, F. J.; Fernández, A.; Raga, J. A.; Fernández, M. (2016). Evolutionary relationships between digeneans of the family Brachycladiidae Odhner, 1905 and their marine mammal hosts: A cophylogenetic study. Parasitology International. 65 (3): 209–217.