Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Xiphidiata > Superfamily Microphalloidea > Family Microphallidae > Subfamily Levinseniellinae > Genus Levinseniella

Levinseniella brachysoma (Creplin, 1837) Stiles & Hassall, 1902

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Levinseniella*	Ward, 1901	accepted genus name
*Levinsenia*	Stossich, 1899	synonym
*Microphallus*	auct.	misapplied name

Species group names

*Distoma brachysomum*	Creplin, 1837	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	Smogorzhevskaya, L.A. (1976). Helminths of diving and marsh birds of the fauna of the Ukraine. Naukova Dumka, Kiev, 415 pp. (In Russian).
additional source	Oshmarin, P. G. (1963). Helminth parasites of mammals and birds in the region of Primorye. Izdatelstvo Akademii Nauk SSSR: Moscow, 323 pp. (In Russian).
redescription	Sonin, M. D. (1985). Key to identification of trematodes of piscivorous birds of the Palaearctic (Brachylaimida, Clinostomida, Cyclocoelida, Fasciolida, Notocotylida, Plagiorchida, Schistosomatida). Nauka, Moscow, 256 pp. (In Russian).
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	Lühe, M. (1909). Parasitische Plattwürmer. I: Trematodes. Süsswasserfauna Deutschlands. 17, 1-217.
redescription	Deblock, S.; Tran Van Ky, P. (1966). Contribution à l'étude des Microphallidae Travassos, 1920 (Trematoda)-XII. Espèces d'Europe occidentale. Création de Sphairiotrema nov. gen.; Considérations diverses de systématique (à propos des collections de Microphallidés du British Museum de Londres et du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Göteborg-Suède). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 41 (1): 23–60.
redescription	Rankin, J. S. (1939). Studies on the trematode family Microphallidae Travassos, 1921. I. The genus Levinseniella Stiles and Hassall, 1901, and description of a new genus, Cornucopula. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 58 (4): 431–447.
redescription	Belopolskaja, M. M. (1952). Trematode family Microphallidae Travassos, 1920. Osnovy Trematodologii. 6: 618–756 (In Russian).
new combination reference	Stiles, C. W.; Hassall, A. (1902). Levinseniella, new name for the trematode genus Levinsenia Stossich, 1899 (not Mesnil, 1897). Bulletin of the Bureau of Animal Industries. 35: 19–20.