Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Xiphidiata > Superfamily Opecoeloidea > Family Opecoelidae > Subfamily Podocotylinae > Genus Podocotyle

Podocotyle scorpaenae (Rudolphi, 1919) Bartoli & Gibson, 1991

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Podocotyle*	Dujardin, 1845	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Distoma scorpaenae*	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	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	Jousson, O.; Bartoli, P.; Pawlowski, J. (1999). Molecular identification of developmental stages in Opecoelidae (Digenea). International Journal for Parasitology. 29: 1853–1858.
redescription	Bartoli, P., Jousson, O. (2003). The life-cycle of Podocotyle scorpaenae (Opecoelidae: Digenea) demonstrated by comparative analysis of ribosomal DNA sequences. In: Combes, C., Jourdane, J. (Eds.). Taxonomy, écologie et évolution des métazoaires parasites: Livre-hommage à Louis Euzet . Vol. 1. Presses Universitaires de Perpignan, Perpignan, pp. 17–28.
redescription	Bartoli, P., Gibson, D.I. (1991). On Podocotyle scorpaenae, Poracanthium furcatum and Derogenes latus,three poorly known digenean parasites of western Mediterranean teleosts. Systematic Parasitology. 20, 29-46.
new combination reference	Bartoli, P., Gibson, D.I. (1991). On Podocotyle scorpaenae, Poracanthium furcatum and Derogenes latus,three poorly known digenean parasites of western Mediterranean teleosts. Systematic Parasitology. 20, 29-46.
biology source	Bartoli, P.; Gibson, D. I. (2007). Synopsis of the life cycles of Digenea (Platyhelminthes) from lagoons of the northern coast of the western Mediterranean. Journal of Natural History. 41 (25-28): 1553–1570.