Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Pronocephalata > Superfamily Paramphistomoidea > Family Mesometridae > Genus Wardula

Wardula capitellata (Rudolphi, 1819) Poche, 1926

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Wardula*	Poche, 1926	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Monostoma capitellata*	Rudolphi, 1819	synonym

Literature

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	Jousson, O., Bartoli, P., Pawlowski, J. (1998). Molecular phylogeny of Mesometridae (Trematoda, Digenea) with its relation to morphological changes in parasites. Parasite. 5: 365–369.
additional source	Radujkovic, B.; Sundic, D. (2014). Parasitic flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea, Digenea, Cestoda) of fishes from the Adriatic Sea. Natura Montenegrina. 13 (1):7–280.
additional source	Kornyychuk, Y. M. (2024). The First Find of Trematodes in the Black Sea Invader Sarpa salpa (Linnaeus, 1758) (Pisces: Teleostei, Sparidae) and Notes on the Ways of Salema Trematode Fauna Formation in This Water Body. Russian Journal of Biological Invasions. 15(3): 354-363.
additional source	Jousson, O., Bartoli, P., Zaninetti, L., Pawlowski, J. (1998). Use of the ITS rDNA for elucidation of some life-cycles of Mesometridae (Trematoda, Digenea). International Journal for Parasitology. 28: 1403–1411.
additional source	Bakhoum, A. J. S.; Ndiaye, P. I.; Sène, A.; Bâ, C. T.; Miquel, J. (2012). Spermiogenesis and ultrastructure of the spermatozoon of Wardula capitellata (Digenea, Mesometridae), an intestinal parasite of the sparid teleost Sarpa salpa in Senegal. Acta Parasitologica. 57 (1): 34–45.
redescription	Bartoli, P. (1987). Caractères adaptatifs originaux des digènes intestinaux de Sarpa salpa (Teleostei, Sparidae) et leur interprétation en termes d'évolution. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 62 (6): 542–576.
redescription	Boukadoum, A; Tazerouiti, F. (2024). Digenea community structure of the Salema, Sarpa salpa (Linnaeus, 1758) (Teleostei, Sparidae), from the Central coast of Algeria. Helminthologia. 61, 1: 59 – 75.
redescription	Skrjabin, K. I. (1963). Family Mesometridae Poche, 1925. Osnovy Trematodologii. 21: 65–80. (In Russian).
redescription	Paggi, L.; Orecchia, P. (1964). I monostomi parassiti di Box salpa, Revisione della famiglia Mesometridae, Poche. 1926. Parassitologia. 6: 283–311.
redescription	Jousson, O.; Bartoli, P. (1999). The life-cycle of three species of the Mesometridae (Digenea) with comments on the taxonomic status of this family. Systematic Parasitology. 44 (3): 217–228.
new combination reference	Poche, F. (1926). Das System der Platodaria. Archiv für naturgeschichte. Abteilung A. 91: 1-458.