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 similis (Jägerskiöld, 1900) 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

*Levinsenia similis*	Jägerskiöld, 1900	objective synonym
*Levinsenia pygmaea var. similis*	Jägerskiöld, 1900	synonym
*Microphallus excellens*	(Nicoll, 1907) Baer, 1944	synonym
*Spelotrema excellens*	Nicoll, 1907	synonym
*Spelotrema simile*	(Jagerskiold, 1900) Looss, 1902	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	Popiel, I.; James, B. L. (1978). The ultrastructure of the tegument of the daughter sporocyst of Microphallus similis (Jäg., 1900) (Digenea: Microphallidae). Parasitology. 76 (3): 359–367.
source of synonymy	James, B. L. (1969). The Digenea of the intertidal prosobranch, Littorina saxatilis (Olivi). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 7 (1): 273–316.
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	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.
redescription	Stunkard, H. W. (1970). The marine cercariae of the Woods Hole Massachusetts Region. Biological Bulletin. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole. 138: 66–76.
redescription	Ching, H. L. (1965). Systematic notes on some North American microphallid trematodes. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington. 32: 140–148.
redescription	Belopolskaja, M. M. (1963). Family Microphallidae Travassos, 1920. Osnovy Trematodologii. 21: 259–502 (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	James, B. (1968). The occurrence of larval Digenea in ten species of intertidal prosobranch molluscs in Cardigan Bay. Journal of Natural History. 2 (3): 329–343.
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.