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

Prodistomum orientale (Layman, 1930) Bray & Gibson, 1990

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Prodistomum*	Linton, 1910	accepted genus name
*Prodistomum orientale*	(Layman, 1930) Bray & Gibson, 1990	taxonomically included in
*Prodistomum polonii*	(Molin, 1859) Bray & Gibson, 1990	taxonomically included in
*Prodistomum priedei*	Bray & Merrett, 1998	taxonomically included in

Species group names

*Pharyngora orientalis*	Layman, 1930	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	Ghosh, A.; Sreeraj, C. R. (2023). Fauna of India Checklist: Platyhelminthes. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. 49 pp.
additional source	Jadgal, S., Pazooki, J., Alizadeh Noudeh, M. (2022). Parasitic worms of the Indian mackerel (Rastrelliger kanagurta) in Chabahar region (Oman Sea). Iranian Scientific Fisheries Journal. 31(2): 27–37.
additional source	Cribb, T. H.; Cutmore, S. C.; Wee, N. Q.-X.; Browne, J. G.; Morales, P. D.; Pitt, K. A. (2024). Lepocreadiidae (Trematoda) associated with gelatinous zooplankton (Cnidaria and Ctenophora) and fishes in Australian and Japanese waters. Parasitology International. 102890.
source of synonymy	Bray, R. A., Gibson, D. I. (1990). The Lepocreadiidae (Digenea) of fishes of the north-east Atlantic: review of the genera Opechona Looss, 1907 and Prodistomum Linton, 1910. Systematic Parasitology. 15: 159-202.
redescription	Al-Zubaidy, A. B., Mhaisen, F. T. (2014). Four new records of trematodes from the Indian mackerel Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier, 1816) from the Yemeni coastal waters of the Red Sea. American Journal of Biology and Life Sciences. 2 (6): 141–145.
redescription	Madhavi, R., Bray, R. A. (2018). Digenetic Trematodes of Indian Marine Fishes. Springer, Dordrecht, 693 pp.
redescription	Sokolov, S. G.; Gordeev, I. I.; Atopkin, D. M. (2020). Phylogenetic affiliation of the lepocreadiid trematodes parasitizing some marine fishes in the North-western Pacific. Marine Biology Research. 1-10.