Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Diplostomida > Suborder Diplostomata > Superfamily Diplostomoidea > Family Diplostomidae > Subfamily Diplostominae > Genus Diplostomum

Diplostomum spathaceum (Rudolphi, 1819) Olsson, 1876

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Diplostomum*	von Nordmann, 1832	accepted genus name
*Hemistomum*	Diesing, 1850	synonym
*Proalaria*	La Rue, 1926	synonym
*Hemistomum*	auct.	misapplied name
*Tylodelphys*	auct.	misapplied name

Species group names

*Cercaria paracaudum*	Iles, 1959	objective synonym
*Diplostomum erythrophthalmi*	Shigin, 1965	subjective synonym
*Diplostomum macrostoumum*	Shigin, 1965	subjective synonym
*Diplostomum paracaudum*	(Iles, 1959) Shigin, 1977	synonym
*Distoma spathaceum*	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	Gibson, D.I. (1996) Guide to the parasites of Canadian fishes. Part IV. Trematoda. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 373 pp.
additional source	Leonov, V. A., Belogurov, O. I., Shagvaleeva, N. M., Bondarenko, S. K. (1965). On the trematode fauna of fish-eating birds in Kamchatka. In: Leonov, V. A., Mamaev, Y. L., Oshmarin, P. G. (Eds.). Parasitic woгms оf dоmеstic and wild animals. Vladivostok: Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 130–158. (In Russian).
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	Timon-David, J. (1955). Trématodes des Goélands de l'île de Riou. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 30 (5-6): 446–476.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Smogorzhevskaya, L.A. (1976). Helminths of diving and marsh birds of the fauna of the Ukraine. Naukova Dumka, Kiev, 415 pp. (In Russian).
additional source	Køie, M. (1984). Digenetic trematodes from Gadus morhua L. (Osteichthyes, Gadidae) from Danish and adjacent waters, with special reference to their life-histories. Ophelia. 23 (2): 195-222.
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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).
additional source	Achatz, T. J.; Martens, J. R.; Kostadinova, A.; Pulis, E. E.; Orlofske, S. A.; Bell, J. A.; Fecchio, A.; Oyarzún-Ruiz, P.; Syrota, Y. Y.; Tkach, V. V. (2022). Molecular phylogeny of Diplostomum, Tylodelphys, Austrodiplostomum and Paralaria (Digenea: Diplostomidae) necessitates systematic changes and reveals a history of evolutionary host switching events. International Journal for Parasitology. 52 (1): 47–63.
additional source	Reimer, L. (2002). Parasitische Würmer (Helminthen) von Seevögeln der Ostseeküste. Seevogel. 23 (3): 66–76.
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redescription	Sudarikov, V. E. (1960). Order Srigeidida [sic] (La Rue, 1926) Sudarikov, 1959. Part two. Superfamily Diplostomatoidea Nicoll, 1937. Family Diplostomatidae (Poirier, 1886). Osnovy Trematodologii. 17: 156–530. (In Russian).
redescription	Niewiadomska, K. (1984). Present status of Diplostomum spathaceum (Rudolphi, 1819) and differentiation of Diplostomum pseudospathaceum nom. nov. (Trematoda: Diplostomatidae). Systematic Parasitology. 6 (2): 81–86.
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	Gupta, N. K.; Mishra, P. N. (1975). On four trematodes of the genus Diplostomum from birds in India. Folia Parasitologica. 22 (3): 201–206.
redescription	Bychovskaja-Pavlovskaja, I. E. (1953). The fauna of bird trematodes of West Siberia and their dynamics. Parazitologicheskii Sbornik. 15: 5–116. (In Russian).
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	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.
redescription	Dubois, G., Mahon, J. (1959). Étude de quelques trématodes Nord-Américains (avec note sur la position systématique de Parorchis Nicoll 1907) suivie d'une revision des genres Galactosomum Looss 1899 et Ochetosoma Braun 1901. Bulletin de la Société Neuchateloise des Sciences Naturelles. 82: 191–229.
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	Chakrabarti. S., Chatterjee, A. (2005). Trematodes of birds and mammals. State Fauna Series. Fauna of Andhra Pradesh, Invertebrates. 5: 1-98.
redescription	Greze, V. N., Delyamure, S. L. & Nikolaeva, V. M. (Eds.). (1975). Key to the parasites of vertebrates of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 551 pp. (In Russian).
redescription	Olsson, P. (1876). Bidrag till skandinaviens helminthfauna. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, Ny Följd. 14(1): 1-35.
redescription	Shigin, A. A. (1986). Trematodes of the fauna of the USSR: genus Diplostomum. metacercaria. Moscow, Nauka, 253 pp.
redescription	Sudarikov, V. E. (1971). Order Strigeidida (La Rue, 1926) Sudarikov, 1959. Part five. Metacercariae and mesocercariae. A. Suborder Strigeata La Rue, 1926. Osnovy Trematodologii. 24: 69–272. (In Russian).
new combination reference	Olsson, P. (1876). Bidrag till skandinaviens helminthfauna. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, Ny Följd. 14(1): 1-35.
identification resource	Alshehri, E.; Abdel-Gaber, R.; Al-Quraishy, S. (2024). Identification tools of Diplostomum spathaceum Rudolphi, 1819 (Diplostomida: Diplostomidae), a trematode parasite of herring gull (Larus argentatus). Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia. 76(4).