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 Microphallinae > Genus Microphallus

Microphallus claviformis (Brandes, 1889) Baer, 1944

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Microphallus*	Ward, 1901	accepted genus name
*Bulbovitellus*	Yamaguti, 1971	generic synonym
*Spelophallus*	Jägerskiöld, 1908	synonym
*Spelotrema*	Jägerskiöld, 1901	synonym

Species group names

*Distoma claviformis*	Brandes, 1888	objective synonym
*Distomum claviforme*	Brandes, 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	Deblock, S.; Rosé, F. (1964). Contribution à l'etude des Microphallidae Travassos, 1920 (Trematoda) des Oiseaux de France IX. Description d'Anacetabulitrema samarae n. gen., n. sp., de Maritrema macracetabulum n. sp. et de Microphallus somateria (Kulatsch.) n. comb., parasites d'Anatidés. Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France. 89: 429–443.
additional source	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.
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	Cable, R. M.; Connor, R. S.; Balling, J. W. (1960). Digenetic trematodes of Puerto Rican shore birds. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. 17 (2): 187–255.
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).
new combination reference	Baer, J. (1944). Les trematodes parasites de la musaraigne d'eau Neomys fodiens (Schreb.). Bulletin de la Societe Neuchateloise des Sciences Naturelles. 68: 33–84.
biology source	Bartoli, P.; Gibson, D. I. (2007). Synopsis of the life cycles of Digenea (Platyhelminthes) from lagoons of the northern coast of the western Mediterranean. Journal of Natural History. 41 (25-28): 1553–1570.
biology source	Prevot, G.; Bartoli, P. (1977). Recherches ecologiques sur les cycles evolutifs de Trematodes dans une lagune de Provence (France). 1. - Le cycle de Microphallus claviformis (Brandes, 1888) (Microphallidae - Travassos, 1920). Ecologia Mediterranea. SupplementNo. 3: 105–112.