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

Gymnophallus somateriae (Levinsen, 1881) Odhner, 1900

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Distoma Retzius, 1786

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Gymnophallus*	Odhner, 1900	accepted genus name
*Meiogymnophallus*	Ching, 1965	synonym
*Gymnophallus*	auct.	misapplied name

Species group names

*Meiogymnophallus somateriae*	(Levinsen, 1881)	objective synonym
*Gymnophallus gibberosus*	Loos-Frank, 1971	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	Odhner, T. (1905). Die Trematoden des arktischen Gebietes. Fauna Arctica. 4: 289-372.
redescription	Morozov, F. N. (1955). Suborder Heterophyata Morosov, 1955. Osnovy Trematodologii. 10: 241-335. (In Russian).
redescription	Ching, H. L. (1973). Description of Gymnophallus somateriae (Levinsen, 1881) from Macoma inconspicua and diving ducks from Vancouver, Canada. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 51 (8): 801–806.
new combination reference	Odhner, T. (1900). Gymnophallus, eine neue Gattung von Vogeldistomen. Centralblatt. Bakteriol. 28 (1): 12–23.
biology source	Ching, H. 1991. Lists of larval worms from marine invertebrates of the Pacific Coast of North America. Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington 58: 57-68.
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.