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 Maritrematinae > Genus Maritrema

Maritrema opisthometra Leonov, 1958

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Maritrema*	Nicoll, 1907	accepted genus name
*Maritreminoides*	auct.	misapplied name
*Pseudomaritrema*	auct.	misapplied name
*Spelotrema*	auct.	misapplied name

Species group names

*Maritrema elongata*	Deblock, Capron & Biguet, 1960	subjective synonym

Literature

original description	Leonov, V. A. (1958). [Helminth fauna of Lariformes in the animal reserve and adjoining territory in the Kherson area.]. Uchenye Zapiski Gorkovskogo Gosudarstvennogo Pedagogicheskogo Instituta. 20: 266-295. (In Russian).
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).
redescription	Belopolskaja, M. M. (1963). Family Microphallidae Travassos, 1920. Osnovy Trematodologii. 21: 259–502 (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	Samoylovskaja [Самойловская Н.А., Успенский А.В., Хрусталев А.В., Москвин А.С.]. (2014). Каталог коллекции гельминтов Центрального гельминтологического музея. [Catalog of the collection of helminths of the Central Helminthological Museum]. ВСЕРОССИЙСКИЙ НАУЧНО-ИССЛЕДОВАТЕЛЬСКИЙ ИНСТИТУТ ГЕЛЬМИНТОЛОГИИ имени К. И. СКРЯБИНА. Moscow, 519 pp.
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).