Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Cestoda > Subclass Nephroposticophora > Subclass Eucestoda > Order Diphyllobothriidea > Family Diphyllobothriidae > Genus Ligula

Ligula intestinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) Gmelin, 1790

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ligula*	Bloch, 1782	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Fasciola intestinalis*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Bray, R.A. (2001). Cestoda, 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. 146-149
additional source	Kuchta, R., Scholz, T. (2017). Diphyllobothriidea Kuchta, Scholz, Brabec & Bray, 2008. In: Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008-2017): Tapeworms from Vertebrate Bowels of the Earth. J.N. Caira & K. Jensen (eds). University of Kansas, Natural History Museum, Special Publucation No. 25, Lawrence, KS USA, pp. 167-189.
additional source	Ghosh, A.; Sreeraj, C. R. (2023). Fauna of India Checklist: Platyhelminthes. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. 49 pp.
additional source	Dimitrova, Y. D.; Vasileva, G. P.; Mariaux, J.; Georgiev, B. B. (2023). Two and a Half Centuries after Houttuyn: A Review of Avian Cestodes (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda) from Africa. Diversity. 15(5): 634.
additional source	Kesik, H. K.; Celik, F.; Turk, C.; Gunyakti Kilinc, S.; Simsek, S.; Gul, A. (2024). Sequence and Haplotype Analyses of Ligula intestinalis in Acanthobrama marmid (Cyprinidae) in Turkey. Acta Parasitologica.
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	Mhaisen, F.T. & A.R. Al-Rubaie. (2016). Checklists of parasites of farm fishes of Babylon Province, Iraq. Journal of Parasitology Research. 2016:1-16. 7170534. Epub.
redescription	Prudhoe, S., Hussey, C. G. (1977). Some parasitic worms in freshwater fishes and fish-predators from the Transvaal, South Africa. Zoologica Africana. 12(1): 113-147.