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

Pleorchis Railliet, 1896

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Pleorchis polyorchis (Stossich, 1888) Stiles, 1896

Literature

original description	Railliet, A. (1896). Quelques rectifications à la nomenclature des parasites. Rec. Méd. Vét. 73 (8 s, v. 3 (5)): 157-161.
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	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Al-Yamani & F.M. Nahhas (1981). Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes from Kuwaiti Coast of the Arabian Gulf. Kuwait Bulletin of Marine Science. No. 3: 1-22.
identification resource	Bray, R. A. (2005). Family Acanthocolpidae Lühe, 1906. In: Jones, A., Bray,. R.A., Gibson, D.I. (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 2. Wallingford, CABI Publishing and the Natural History Museum, 603–619.
identification resource	Skrjabin, K. I. (1954). Family Acanthocolpidae.Lühe, 1909. Osnovy Trematodologii. 9, 45-224. (In Russian).