Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Lepocreadiata > Superfamily Lepocreadioidea > Family Lepidapedidae > Genus Lepidapedon

Lepidapedon elongatum (Lebour, 1908) Nicoll, 1910

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lepidapedon*	Stafford, 1904	accepted genus name
*Lepodora*	Odhner, 1905	synonym

Species group names

*Lepodora elongata*	Lebour, 1908	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	Gibson, D.I. (1996) Guide to the parasites of Canadian fishes. Part IV. Trematoda. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 373 pp.
additional source	Lumb, S. M.; Bray, R. A.; Rollinson, D. (1993). Partial small subunit (18S) rRNA gene sequences from fish parasites of the families Lepocreadiidae and Fellodistomidae (Digenea) and their use in phylogenetic analyses. Systematic Parasitology. 26(2): 141-149.
additional source	Køie, M. (2000). Metazoan parasites of teleost fishes from atlantic waters off the Faroe Islands. Ophelia. 52(1): 25-44.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Køie, M. (1984). Digenetic trematodes from Gadus morhua L. (Osteichthyes, Gadidae) from Danish and adjacent waters, with special reference to their life-histories. Ophelia. 23 (2): 195-222.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Overstreet, R. M., J. O. Cook, and R. W. Heard. 2009. Trematoda (Platyhelminthes) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 419–486 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
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	Brinkmann, A. (1975). Trematodes from Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland. 205(2): 1-88.
redescription	Manter, H. W. (1926). Some North American fish trematodes. Illinois Biological Monographs. 10, 7-138.
redescription	Manter, H. W. (1934). Some digenetic trematodes from deep-water fish of Tortugas, Florida. Papers from Tortugas Laboratory. 28: 257-345.
redescription	Caballero y C., E., Bravo-Hollis, M., & Grocott, R. G. (1955). Helmintos de la Republica de Panama. XIV. Trematodos Monogeneos y Digeneos de peces marinos del Oceano Pacifico del norte, con descripcion de nuevas formas. Anales del Instituto de Biología. Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México. 26: 117–147.
redescription	Chernyshenko, A. (1949). New helminths of fishes in the Black Sea. Trudy Odesskogo Derzhavnogo Universiteta imeni I.I. Mechnikova (Series Biologicheskikh Nauk). 57: 79-91.
redescription	Dawes, B. (1947). The Trematoda of British Fishes. Ray Society, London. 364 pp.
redescription	Bhutta, M. S., Khan, D. (1975). Digenetic trematodes of vertebrates from Pakistan. Bulletin of the Department of Zoology, University of the Panjab (New Series). 8, 1-175.
redescription	Skrjabin, K. I., Koval, V. P. (1960). Suborder Allocreadiata Skrjabin, Petrov and Koval, 1958. Part two. Superfamily Lepocreadioidea Cable, 1956. Osnovy Trematodologii. 18, 13-377. (In Russian: English translation (1965) Israel Program for Scientific Translations. Cat. No. 1426, 1967-1272).
redescription	Greze, V. N., Delyamure, S. L. & Nikolaeva, V. M. (Eds.). (1975). Key to the parasites of vertebrates of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 551 pp. (In Russian).
redescription	Bray, R. A.; Gibson, D. I. (1995). The Lepocreadiidae (Digenea) of fishes from the north-east Atlantic: a review of the genus Lepidapedon Stafford, 1904. Systematic Parasitology. 31(2): 81-132.
redescription	Køie, M. (1985). On the morphology and life-history of Lepidapedon elongatum (Lebour, 1908) Nicoll, 1910 (Trematoda, Lepocreadiidae). Ophelia. 24 (3): 135–153.
redescription	Bray, R. A.; Des Clers, S. A. (1992). Multivariate analyses of metrical features in the Lepidapedon elongatum (Lebour, 1908) species-complex (Digenea, Lepocreadiidae) in deep and shallow water gadiform fishes of the NE Atlantic. Systematic Parasitology. 21(3): 223-232.
redescription	Gupta, N. K., Sehgal, S. K. (1971). Some allocreadiid trematodes from marine food fishes of India. Research Bulletin of the Panjab University of Science (Zoology). 21(3-4 1970): 267-275.
redescription	Linton, E. (1940). Trematodes from fishes mainly from the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 88: 1-172.
redescription	Bray, R.A. (1979). Digenea in marine fishes from the eastern seaboard of Canada. Journal of Natural History. 13, 399-431.
redescription	Bray, R. A. (1973). Some digenetic trematodes in fishes from the Bay of Biscay and nearby waters. Bulletin Br Mus Nat Hist (Zool). 26, 151-183.
new combination reference	Nicoll, W. (1910). On the entozoa of fishes from the Firth of Clyde. Parasitology. 3: 322-359.