Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Bucephalata > Superfamily Bucephaloidea > Family Bucephalidae > Subfamily Bucephalinae > Genus Bucephalus

Bucephalus minimus (Stossich, 1887) Nicoll, 1914

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Bucephalus*	von Baer, 1827	accepted genus name
*Gasterostomum*	von Siebold, 1848	synonym
*Labratrema*	Maillard, 1975	synonym

Species group names

*Gasterostomum minimum*	Stossich, 1887	synonym
*Labratrema minimum*	(Stossich, 1887) Biagianti & Maillard, 1984	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Orecchia, Paola; Marina Ortis; Lia Paggi (2006). Digenei, in: Revisione della Checklist della fauna marina italiana.
additional source	Faliex, E., Pages, J.-R., Combes, C. (2003). Circulation du trematode Labratrema minimus dans un ecosysteme lagunair: strategies de retour a l'hote definitif. In: Combes, C., Jourdane, J. (Eds). Taxonomy, ecology and evolution of metazoan parasites. Tome I. Presses Universitaires de Perpignan, pp. 321–345.
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.
redescription	Pina, S.; Barandela, T.; Santos, M. J.; Russell-Pinto, F.; Rodrigues, P. (2009). Identification and description of Bucephalus minimus (Digenea: Bucephalidae) life cycle in Portugal: Morphological, histopathological, and molecular data. Journal of Parasitology. 95 (2): 353–359.
new combination reference	Nicoll, W. (1914). The trematode parasites of fishes from the English Channel. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 10(03): 466-505.
taxonomy source	Matthews, R. A. (1973). The life-cycle of Bucephalus haimeanus Lacaze-Duthiers, 1854 from Cardium edule L. Parasitology. 67 (3): 341–350.
biology source	Bartoli, P.; Gibson, D. I. (2007). Synopsis of the life cycles of Digenea (Platyhelminthes) from lagoons of the northern coast of the western Mediterranean. Journal of Natural History. 41 (25-28): 1553–1570.
biology source	de Montaudouin, X., I. Arzul, A. Cao, M.J. Carballal, B. Chollet, S. Correia, J. Cuesta, S. Culloty, G. Daffe, S. Darriba, S. Díaz, M. Engelsma, R. Freitas, C. Garcia, A. Goedknegt, P. Gonzalez, A. Grade, E. Groves, D. Iglesias, K.T. Jensen, S. Joaquim, S. Lynch, L. Magalhães, K. Mahony, F. Maia, S. Malham, D. Matias, A. Nowaczyk, F. Ruano, D. Thieltges & A. Villalba. (2021). Catalogue of parasites and diseases of the common cockle Cerastoderma edule. UA Editora, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal. 130 pp.