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

Lecithochirium Lühe, 1901

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ceratotrema*	Jones, 1933	synonym
*Sterrhurus*	Looss, 1907	synonym

Children

Lecithochirium branchiale (Stunkard & Nigrelli, 1934) Skrjabin & Guschanskaja, 1955
Lecithochirium furcolabiatum (Jones, 1933) Dawes, 1947
Lecithochirium grandiporum (Rudolphi, 1819) Lühe, 1901
Lecithochirium jaffense Fischthal, 1982
Lecithochirium microstomum Chandler, 1935
Lecithochirium musculus (Looss, 1907) Nasir & Diaz, 1971
Lecithochirium physcon Lühe, 1901
Lecithochirium rufoviride (Rudolphi, 1819) Lühe, 1901

Literature

original description	Lühe, M. (1901). Ueber Hemiuriden. (Ein Beitrag zur Systematik der digenetischen Trematoden). Zoologischer Anzeiger. 24, 394-403, 473-488.
basis of record	Gibson, D.I. (2001). Digenea, 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. 136-142
additional source	Johns, P.; Newman, L.J.; Holleman, J.J.; Dawson, E.W.; Sterrer, W.; Allison, F.R.; Diggles, B.K.; Andrews, J.R.H.; Hine, P.M.; McKenna, P.B.; Poulin, R. (2009). Phylum Platyhelminthes: flatworms, tapeworms, flukes, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 102-128.
additional source	Manter, H.W. (1947). The digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of Tortugas. American Midland Naturalist. 38, 257–416.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Nasir, P., Díaz, M. T. (1971). A revision of genus Lecithochirium Luehe, 1901, and redescription of L. monticellii (Linton, 1898) Skrjabin and Guschanskaja, 1955. Rivista di Parassitologia. 32: 27–36.
additional source	Looss, A. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Distomenfamilie Hemiuridae. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 31, 585–620.
redescription	Urabe, M.; Sasai, T.; Sokolov, S. G. (2025). Rejection of the concept of hemiurid genus Pulmovermis (Digenea: Hemiuridae) and other taxonomic propositions: new morphological and molecular data regarding Lecithochirium cyanovitellosum (Coil and Kuntz, 1960) Urabe and Sokolov, comb. nov. (formerly Pulmovermis cyanovitellosus). Systematic Parasitology. 102(1).
taxonomy source	Ghosh, A.; Rizvi, A. N. (2022). Trematode parasites in fishes from Chilika: Three new records to India. Indian Journal of Geo Marine Sciences. Vol. 51 (07), 633-640.
identification resource	Gibson, D. I.; Bray, R. A. (1979). The Hemiuroidea: terminology, systematics and evolution. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 36: 35-146.
identification resource	Gibson, D.I. (2002). Family Hemiuridae Looss, 1899. In: Gibson D. I., Jones, A. & Bray, R. A. (eds),. Keys to the Trematoda, vol. 1. Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 305–340.
identification resource	Chauhan, B. S. (1953). Studies on the trematode fauna of India. Part iv. Subclass Digenea (Prosostomata). (A revision of Hemiuroidea from the Indian Region). Records of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 51 (2): 289–393.
identification resource	Skrjabin, K. I., Guschanskaja, L. K. (1955). Suborder Hemiurata (Markevitsch) Skrjabin & Guschanskaja, 1954. Second part. Osnovy Trematodologii. 10: 337–649. (In Russian).
identification resource	Bray, R. A. (1991). Hemiuridae (Digenea) from marine fishes of the southern Indian Ocean: Genus Lecithochirium Lühe, 1901 (Lecithochiriinae). Systematic Parasitology. 18(3): 193-219.