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 Metorchiinae > Genus Metorchis

Metorchis xanthosomus (Creplin, 1846) Braun, 1902

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Metorchis*	Looss, 1899	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Distoma xanthosomum*	Creplin, 1846	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	Bykhovskaya-Pavlovskaya, I. E.; Kulakova, A. P. (1987). Class Trematoda. Keys to the parasites of freshwater fishes of the fauna of the USSR. Vol. 3, pp. 77–198. (In Russian).
additional source	Brandão, M.; Moreira, J.; Luque, J. (2014). Checklist of Platyhelminthes, Acanthocephala, Nematoda and Arthropoda parasitizing penguins of the world. Check List. 10(3): 562-573.
additional source	Oshmarin, P. G. (1963). Helminth parasites of mammals and birds in the region of Primorye. Izdatelstvo Akademii Nauk SSSR: Moscow, 323 pp. (In Russian).
additional source	Sokolov, S. G.; Reshetnikov, A. N. (2020). A checklist of parasites of non‐native populations of the fish rotan Perccottus glenii (Odontobutidae): Communication II. Journal of Applied Ichthyology.
additional source	Pugachev, O. N. (2003). Checklist of the freshwater fish parasites of Northern Asia. Trematoda. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. Vol. 298, 218 pp. (In Russian).
redescription	Sonin, M. D. (1986). Keys to the identification of trematodes of fish-eating birds of the Palaearctic (opisthorchids, renicolids, strigeids). Nauka, Moscow.. 215 pp. (In Russian).
redescription	Skrjabin, K. I.; Petrov, A. M. (1950). Superfamily Opisthorchoidea Faust, 1929. Osnovy Trematodologii. 4: 81–328. (In Russian).
redescription	Smogorzhevskaya, L.A. (1976). Helminths of diving and marsh birds of the fauna of the Ukraine. Naukova Dumka, Kiev, 415 pp. (In Russian).
redescription	Mehra, H. R. (1980). Platyhelminthes Vol. I. Trematoda. The Fauna of Indian and the adjacent countries. Manager of Publications, Government of India. Delhi, 418 pp.
redescription	Braun, M. (1902). Fascioliden der Vögel. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abt. Syst. 16 (1): 1–162.
redescription	Semenova, N. N., Ivanov, V. P., Ivanov, V. M. (2007). Parasitic fauna and diseases of fishes of the Caspian Sea. Astrakhan: ASTU Press, 559 pp. (In Russian).
redescription	Sudarikov, V. E., Shigin, A. A., Kurochkin, Y. V., Lomakin, V. V., Stenko, R. P., Yurlova, N. I. (2002). Trematode metacercariae - Parasites of freshwater hydrobionts in central Russia. Volume 1. Moscow, Nauka, 298 pp. (In Russian).
redescription	Lühe, M. (1909). Parasitische Plattwürmer. I: Trematodes. Süsswasserfauna Deutschlands. 17, 1-217.
redescription	Sokolov, S.; Kalmykov, A.; Frolov, E.; Atopkin, D. (2022). Taxonomic myths and phylogenetic realities in the systematics of the Opisthorchiidae (Trematoda). Zoologica Scripta. 51 (2): 232–245.
new combination reference	Braun, M. (1902). Fascioliden der Vögel. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abt. Syst. 16 (1): 1–162.
biology source	Yamaguti S. (1975). A synoptical review of life histories of digenetic trematodes of vertebrates with special reference to the morphology of their larval forms. Tokyo, Keigaku Publishing Co. pp. LXI I + 590 + 219 plates.