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 Prosorhynchoides

Prosorhynchoides gracilescens (Rudolphi, 1819) Stunkard, 1976

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Prosorhynchoides*	Dollfus, 1929	accepted genus name
*Bucephalopsis*	Diesing, 1855	synonym

Species group names

*Bucephalopsis gracilescens*	(Rudolphi, 1819) Nicoll, 1914	synonym
*Distoma gracilescens*	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
additional source	Køie, M. (2000). Metazoan parasites of teleost fishes from atlantic waters off the Faroe Islands. Ophelia. 52(1): 25-44.
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	Bartoli, P.; Gibson, D. I.; Bray, R. A. (2006). Prosorhynchoides gracilescens (Rudolphi, 1819) (Digenea: Bucephalidae) from Lophius piscatorius L. is a species complex: a redescription of this species (sensu stricto) from the western Mediterranean and the description of P. borealis n. sp. from the northern North-East Atlantic. Systematic Parasitology. 63(3): 201-219.
redescription	Reimer, L. W. (1985). Bucephalidae (Digenea) aus Fischen der Küste von Moçambique. Angewandte Parasitologie. 26: 13-26.
new combination reference	Stunkard, H. W. (1976). The life cycles, intermediate hosts, and larval stages of Rhipidocotyle transversale Chandler, 1935 and Rhipidocotyle lintoni Hopkins, 1954: life cycles and systematics of bucephalid trematodes. Biological Bulletin. 150(2): 294-317.