Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Bucephalata > Superfamily Bucephaloidea > Family Bucephalidae > Subfamily Bucephalinae

Bucephalus von Baer, 1827

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Gasterostomum*	von Siebold, 1848	synonym; nom. inval.
*Labratrema*	Maillard, 1975	synonym

Children

Bucephalus anguillae Spakulova, Macko, Berrilli & Dezfuli, 2002
Bucephalus baeri Maillard & Saad-Fares, 1981
Bucephalus labracis Paggi & Orecchia, 1965
Bucephalus marinus Vlasenko, 1931
Bucephalus minimus (Stossich, 1887) Nicoll, 1914
Bucephalus mytili Cole, 1935
Bucephalus polymorphus von Baer, 1827

Literature

original description	von Baer, K. E. (1827). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der niedern Thiere. Nova acta physico-medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosum, Bonn. 13 (2): 523–762. + Plate XXIX-XXX.
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	Orecchia, Paola; Marina Ortis; Lia Paggi (2006). Digenei, in: Revisione della Checklist della fauna marina italiana.
identification resource	Overstreet, R. M., Curran, S. S. (2002). Superfamily Bucephaloidea Poche, 1907. In Gibson, D. I., Jones, A., & Bray, R. A. (Eds.). Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 1. (pp. 67-110). Wallingford: CABI Publishing and the Natural History Museum.
identification resource	Skrjabin, K. I.; Guschanskaja, L. H. (1962). Order Bucephalidida (Odening, 1960) Skrjabin et Guschanskaja, 1962. Osnovy Trematodologii. 20: 166–559. (In Russian).