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 piriformes Galaktionov, 1983

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

Literature

original description	Galaktionov, K. V. (1983). Microphallids in the pygmaeus group. 1. Description of the species Microphallus pygmaeus (Levinsen 1881) nec Odhner, 1905 and M. piriformes (Odhner, 1905) nom. nov. (Trematoda, Microphallidae). Vestnik Leningradskogo Universiteta Biologiya. 1983 (3): 20–30. (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	Krupenko, D. Y.; Krapivin, V. A.; Gonchar, A. G. (2016). Muscle system in rediae and daughter sporocysts of several digeneans. Zoomorphology. 135 (4): 405–418.
additional source	Schwantes, U. (2023). Impact of anthropogenous environmental factors on the marine ecosystem of trophically transmitted helminths and hosting seabirds: Focus on North Atlantic, North Sea, Baltic and the Arctic seas. Helminthologia. 60(4): 300-326.