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 primas (Jägerskiöld, 1908) Stunkard, 1951

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

*Spelophallus primas*	Jägerskiöld, 1908	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	Ching, H. L. (1960). Some digenetic trematodes of shore birds at Friday Harbor, Washington. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington. 27 (1): 53–62.
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	Cribb, T.H., Bray, R.A., Littlewood, D.T.J., Pichelin, S., Herniou, E.A. (2001). The Digenea. In: Littlewood, D.T.J. & Bray, R.A. (Eds). Interrelationships of the Platyhelminthes. London: Taylor & Francis, 168-185.
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	Chakrabarti. S., Chatterjee, A. (2005). Trematodes of birds and mammals. State Fauna Series. Fauna of Andhra Pradesh, Invertebrates. 5: 1-98.
new combination reference	Stunkard, H. W. (1951). Observations on the morphology and Life-history of Microphallus limuli n.sp. (Trematoda: Microphallidae). Biological Bulletin. 101: 307–318.