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

Pleorchis polyorchis (Stossich, 1888) Stiles, 1896

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pleorchis*	Railliet, 1896	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Distomum polyorchis*	Stossich, 1889	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.
redescription	Bartoli, P.; Gibson, D. I.; Bray, R. A. (2004). Redescription of Pleorchis polyorchis (Stossich, 1889) (Digenea: Acanthocolpidae), a rare and poorly known parasite of the intestine of Sciaena umbra L. (Perciformes: Sciaenidae) from the western Mediterranean Sea. Systematic Parasitology. 58(2): 81-90.
redescription	Skrjabin, K. I. (1954). Family Acanthocolpidae.Lühe, 1909. Osnovy Trematodologii. 9, 45-224. (In Russian).
redescription	Stossich, M. (1898). Saggio di una fauna elmintologia di Trieste e provincie contermini. Programma della Civica Scuola Reale Superiore. 1-162.
new combination reference	Stiles, C. W. (1896). A revision of the adult tapeworms of hares and rabbits. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. (1105), v. 19, 145-235.