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 pygmaeus (Levinsen, 1881) 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 pygmaeus*	Levinsen, 1881	objective synonym
*Distomum pygmaeum*	Levinsen, 1881	synonym
*Levinsenia pygmaea*	(Levinsen, 1881)	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.; 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	Werding, B. (1969). Morphologie, Entwicklung und Okologie digener Trematoden-Larven der Strandschnecke Littorina littorea. Marine Biology. 3 (4): 306–333.
redescription	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).
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	Chubrik, G. K. (1966). Fauna and ecology of trematode larvae from molluscs in the Barents and White Seas. Trudy Murmanskii Morskoi Biologicheskii Institut. 10 (14): 78–166. (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).
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	Ching, H. 1991. Lists of larval worms from marine invertebrates of the Pacific Coast of North America. Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington 58: 57-68.
biology source	Sannia, A.; James, B. (1977). The Digenea in marine molluscs from Eyjafjördur, North Iceland. Ophelia. 16 (1): 97-109.