Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Opisthorchiata > Superfamily Opisthorchioidea > Family Cryptogonimidae > Genus Metadena

Metadena depressa (Stossich, 1883) Janiszewska, 1953

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Metadena*	Linton, 1910	accepted genus name
*Achoerus*	Vlasenko, 1931 nec Beklemischev, 1914	synonym

Species group names

*Distomum depressum*	Stossich, 1883	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	Radujkovic, B.; Sundic, D. (2014). Parasitic flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea, Digenea, Cestoda) of fishes from the Adriatic Sea. Natura Montenegrina. 13 (1):7–280.
additional source	Greani, S.; Quilichini, Y.; Foata, J.; Swiderski, Z.; Marchand, B. (2012). Ultrastructural study of vitellogenesis and oogenesis of Metadena depressa (Stossich, 1883) Linton, 1910 (Digenea, Cryptogonimidae), intestinal parasite of Dentex dentex (Pisces, Teleostei). Comptes Rendus Biologies. 335 (10-11): 657–667.
redescription	Bartoli, P.; Bray, R. A. (1987). Redescriptions of two cryptogonimid digeneans from the fish Dentex dentex (L., 1758) (Sparidae) in the Mediterranean Sea. Systematic Parasitology. 10(2): 117-127.
redescription	Paradiznik, V., Radujkovic, B. (2007). Digenea trematodes in fish of the north Adriatic Sea. Acta Adriatica. 48 (2): 115–129.
redescription	Janiszewska, J. (1953). Some Adriatic Sea fish trematodes. Zoologica Poloniae. 6, 20–48.
new combination reference	Janiszewska, J. (1953). Some Adriatic Sea fish trematodes. Zoologica Poloniae. 6, 20–48.