Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Gymnophallata > Superfamily Gymnophalloidea > Family Fellodistomidae > Subfamily Fellodistominae > Genus Monascus

Monascus filiformis (Rudolphi, 1819) Looss, 1907

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Monascus*	Looss, 1907	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Distoma filiforme*	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	Overstreet, R. M., J. O. Cook, and R. W. Heard. 2009. Trematoda (Platyhelminthes) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 419–486 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	Öztürk, T.; Özer, A. (2016). Digenean parasites of Atlantic horse mackerel (Trachurus trachurus) in the Turkish Black Sea coast. Ege Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 33 (1): 35–40.
additional source	Diaz Briz, L. M.; Martorelli, S. R.; Genzano, G. N.; Mianzan, H. W. (2012). Parasitism (Trematoda, Digenea) in medusae from the southwestern Atlantic Ocean: medusa hosts, parasite prevalences, and ecological implications. Hydrobiologia. 690 (1): 215–226.
additional source	Kohn, A.; Fernandes, B.M.M.; Cohen, S.C. (2007). South American trematode parasites of fishes. CNPq, FIOCRUZ. 318 pp.
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.
additional source	Køie, M. (1983). Digenetic trematodes from Limanda limanda (L.) (Osteichthyes, Pleuronectidae) from Danish and adjacent waters, with special reference to their life-histories. Ophelia. 22 (2): 201-228.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
redescription	Shen, J. W. (1990). Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes from Hainan Island. Beijing: Science Press. 228 pp. (In Chinese).
redescription	Oguz, M.C., Bray, R.A. (2006). Digenetic trematodes of some teleost fish off the Mudanya Coast (Sea of Marmara, Bursa, Turkey). Helminthologia. 43, 161-167.
redescription	Radujković, B.M., Orecchia, P., Paggi, L. (1989). Parasites des poissons marin du Montenegro: digènes. Acta Adriatica. 30(1-2): 137-187.
redescription	Girola, C.V., S.R. Martorelli & N.H. Sardella, 1992. Presencia de metacercarias de Monascus filiformis (Digenea, Fellodistomidae) en hidromedusas del Océano Atlántico Sur. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 65 4: 409-415.
redescription	Lozano, C., Ubeda, J. M., De Rojas, M., Ariza, C., Guevara, D. C. (2001). Estudio de digénidos de peces marinos del sur de la Península Ibérica. Research and Reviews in Parasitology. 61: 103–116.
redescription	Dollfus, R.-P. (1947). Sur Monascus filiformis (Rudolphi 1819) A. Looss 1907, trématode de l'intestin de Cepola rubescens (L.) en méditerranée. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 22: 319-323.
redescription	Nahhas, F. M., Powell, E. C. (1971). Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes from the Floridian northern Gulf of Mexico. Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany. 17, 1–9.
redescription	Hafeezullah, M., Dutta, I. B. (1998). Digenetic trematodes of fishes. Zoological Survey of India. State Fauna Series: Fauna of West Bengal. Part 11, 133–222.
redescription	Nasir, P., Gomez, Y. (1977). Digenetic trematodes from Venezuelan marine fishes. Rivista di Parassitologia. 38, 53-73.
redescription	Gaevskaya, A. V. (1990). Some comments on trematodes of genus Monascus Looss, 1907 (Fellodistomatidae). In: Lebedev BI (ed). Parasites of animals and plants: collection of papers. Academy of Sciences of the USSR Far-East Branch, Vladivostock, pp 69–73. (In Russian).
redescription	Pereira, J., Jr., Fernandes, B. M. M., Robaldo, R. B. (2000). Digenea (Trematoda) of Micropogonias furnieri (Desmarest) (Perciformes, Sciaenidae) from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 17 (3): 681–686.
redescription	Sey, O.; Nahhas, F. M.; Uch, S.; Vang, C. (2003). Digenetic trematodes from marine fishes off the coast of Kuwait, Arabian Gulf: Fellodistomidae and some smaller families, new host and geographic records. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 49(3): 179-200.
redescription	Køie, M. (1979). On the morphology and life-history of Monascus [= Haplocladus] filiformis (Rudolphi, 1819) Looss, 1907 and Steringophorus furciger (Olsson, 1868) Odhner, 1905 (Trematoda, Fellodistomidae). Ophelia. 18: 113–132.
redescription	Wallet, M., Kohn, A. (1987). Trématodes parasites de poissons marins du littoral de Rio de Janeiro, Brésil. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. 82 (1): 21–27.
redescription	Martorelli, S. R., Cremonte, F. (1998). A proposed three-host life history of Monascus filiformis (Rudolphi, 1819)(Digenea: Fellodistomidae) in the southwest Atlantic Ocean. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 76 (6):1198–1203.
redescription	Bray, R. A.; Gibson, D. I. (1980). The Fellodistomidae (Digenea) of fishes from the northeast Atlantic. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology. 37(4), 199-293.
redescription	Diaz Briz, L. M.; Martorelli, S. R.; Genzano, G. N. (2015). The parasite Monascus filiformis (Trematoda, Digenea, Fellodistomidae) on Stromateus brasiliensis (Pisces, Perciformes, Stromateidae): possible routes of transmission involving jellyfish. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 96 (7): 1483–1489.
redescription	Madhavi, R., Bray, R. A. (2018). Digenetic Trematodes of Indian Marine Fishes. Springer, Dordrecht, 693 pp.
new combination reference	Looss, A. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Distomenfamilie Hemiuridae. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 31, 585–620.
taxonomy source	Hafeezullah, M. (1984). On the status of some digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of India. Bulletin of the Zoological Survey of India. 6: 209-218.