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

Lecithophyllum Odhner, 1905

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Lecithophyllum botryophoron (Olsson, 1868) Odhner, 1905
Lecithophyllum euzeti Gibson & Bray, 2003
Lecithophyllum magnaprostatica Gaevskaya & Kovaljova in Gaevskaja, 1989

Literature

original description	Odhner, T. (1905). Die Trematoden des arktischen Gebietes. Fauna Arctica. 4: 289-372.
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	Manter, H.W. (1947). The digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of Tortugas. American Midland Naturalist. 38, 257–416.
additional source	Looss, A. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Distomenfamilie Hemiuridae. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 31, 585–620.
taxonomy source	Vainutis, K. S.; Voronova, A. N. (2025). New insights in the systematics of the Hemiuroidea (Digenea: Hemiurata) based on the integrative taxonomy approach. Systematic Parasitology. 102:17.
identification resource	Skrjabin, K. I., Guschanskaja, L. K. (1954). Suborder Hemiurata (Markevitsch) Skrjabin & Guschanskaja, 1954. First part. Osnovy Trematodologii. 9, 225–653. (In Russian).
identification resource	Gibson, D. I. (2002). Family Lecithasteridae Odhner, 1905. 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. 381–396.
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.