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

Ptychogonimus megastomum (Rudolphi, 1819) Lühe, 1900

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ptychogonimus*	Lühe, 1900	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Distoma megastomum*	Rudolphi, 1819	synonym
*Ptychogonimus megastoma*	(Rudolphi, 1819) Lühe, 1900	synonym
*Ptychogonimus megastomus*	(Rudolphi, 1819) Lühe, 1900	synonym

Literature

additional source	Merlo-Serna, A. I.; García-Prieto, L. (2016). A checklist of helminth parasites of Elasmobranchii in Mexico. ZooKeys. 563: 73-128.
additional source	Yamaguti, S. (1938). Studies on the Helminth Fauna of Japan. Part 21. Trematodes of Fishes, IV. Kyöto: Yamaguti, S, 139 pp.
redescription	Gibson, D. I. & Bray, R. A. 1977. The Azygiidae, Hirudinellidae, Ptychogonimidae, Sclerodistomidae and Syncoeliidae of fishes from the north-east Atlantic. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoology) 32: 167–245.
new combination reference	Lühe, M. (1900). Uber die Gattung Podocotyle (Duj.) Stoss. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 23: 487-492.