Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Xiphidiata > Superfamily Gorgoderoidea > Family Gorgoderidae > Subfamily Anaporrhutinae > Genus Plesiochorus

Plesiochorus cymbiformis (Rudolphi, 1819) Looss, 1901

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Plesiochorus*	Looss, 1901	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Distoma cymbiforme*	Rudolphi, 1819	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
redescription	Jerdy, H.; Ferioli, R. B.; Gallo Neto, H.; Zíllio, M.; Monteiro, A.; Carvalho, E. C. Q.; Werneck, M. R. (2021). Plesiochorus cymbiformis (Rudolphi, 1819) Looss, 1901 (Digenea: Gorgoderidae) in Olive Ridley Sea turtles Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829) (Testudines: Chelonidae) from the Brazilian coast: New geographic occurrence and associated injuries. Helminthologia. 58(4): 408-414.
redescription	Chattopadhyaya, D. R. (1971). Studies on the trematode parasite of reptiles found in India.(Digenetic flukes from the marine turtles, from the Gulf of Manaar, South India.). Helminthologia. 11: 63-75.
redescription	Pigulewsky, S. W. (1953). Family Gorgoderidae Looss, 1901 (subfamilies Phyllodistomatinae Pigulewsky, 1952 and Plesiochorinae Pigulewsky, 1952). Osnovy Trematodologii. 8: 251-615. (In Russian).
redescription	Pratt, H. S. (1914). Trematodes of the loggerhead turtle. (Caretta caretta) of the Gulf of Mexico. Archives de Parasitologie Paris. 16: 411–427.
redescription	Blair, D.; Limpus, C. J. (1982). Some digeneans (Platyhelminthes) parasitic in the Loggerhead Turtle, Caretta caretta (L.), in Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology. 30: 653–680.
redescription	Corner, R. D.; Booth, R. J.; Cutmore, S. C. (2022). Plesiochorus irwinorum n. sp. (Trematoda: Gorgoderidae) from the urinary bladder of the hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata (Testudines: Cheloniidae), off the east coast of Australia. Systematic Parasitology.
new combination reference	Looss, A. (1901). Natura doceri, eine Erklärung und Begründung einiger Grundsätze, welche mich bei meinem "Versuche einer natürlichen Gliederung des Genus Distomum Retzius" geleitet haben. Centralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde und Infektionskrankheiten. 1. Abteilung. 29(5): 191-210.