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

Apophallus brevis Ransom, 1920

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Apophallus*	Lühe, 1909	accepted genus name
*Rossicotrema*	Skrjabin & Lindtrop, 1919	synonym

Literature

original description	Ransom, B. H. (1920). Synopsis of the Trematode family Heterophyidae with descriptions of a new genus and five new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 57: 527–573.
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	Gibson, D.I. (1996) Guide to the parasites of Canadian fishes. Part IV. Trematoda. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 373 pp.
redescription	Morozov, F. N. (1952). Trematode superfamily Heterophyoidea Faust, 1929. Skriabin K. I. Trematody zhivonykh i chekoveka (= Osnovy Trematodologii) [Trematodes of animals and humans. Fundamentals of trematodology]. 6: 152–615. (In Russian).
redescription	Sandeman, I.M. & J.H.C. Pippy. (1967). Parasites of freshwater fishes (Salmonidae and Coregonidae) of insular Newfoundland. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. 24(9):1911-1943, figs. 1-23, tabs. 1-4. (ix-1967).