Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Hemiurata > Superfamily Hemiuroidea > Family Hemiuridae > Subfamily Lecithochiriinae > Genus Lecithochirium

Lecithochirium rufoviride (Rudolphi, 1819) Lühe, 1901

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lecithochirium*	Lühe, 1901	accepted genus name
*Ceratotrema*	Jones, 1933	synonym
*Sterrhurus*	Looss, 1907	synonym

Species group names

*Distoma rufoviride*	Rudolphi, 1819	synonym
*Lecithochirium gravidum*	Looss, 1907	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	Nicoll, W. (1913). Trematode parasites from food-fishes of the North Sea. Parasitology. 6: 188–194.
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	Matthews, B. F.; Matthews, R. A. (1988). The tegument in Hemiuridae (Digenea: Hemiuroidea): structure and function in the adult. Journal of Helminthology. 62 (4): 305–316.
additional source	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.
additional source	Sproston, N. G. (1939). Notes sur la faune parasitaire des poissons a Roscoff. Travaux de la Station Biologique de Roscoff. 16: 5-27.
redescription	Lühe, M. (1901). Ueber Hemiuriden. (Ein Beitrag zur Systematik der digenetischen Trematoden). Zoologischer Anzeiger. 24, 394-403, 473-488.
redescription	Skrjabin, K. I., Guschanskaja, L. K. (1955). Suborder Hemiurata (Markevitsch) Skrjabin & Guschanskaja, 1954. Second part. Osnovy Trematodologii. 10: 337–649. (In Russian).
redescription	Gibson, D. I.; Bray, R. A. (1986). The Hemiuridae (Digenea) of fishes from the northeast Atlantic. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series. 51, 1-125.
redescription	Køie, M. (1990). Redescription of the cercaria of Lecithochirium rufoviride (Rudolphi, 1819) Lühe, 1901 (Digenea, Hemiuridae) (= Cercaria vaullegeardi Pelseneer, 1906). Ophelia. 31 (2): 85–95.
redescription	Jones, D. O. (1943). The anatomy of three digenetic trematodes, Skrjabiniella aculeatus (Odhner), Lecithochirium rufoviride (Rud.) and Sterrhurus fusiformis (Lühe) from Conger conger (Linn.). Parasitology. 35: 40–57.
redescription	Dawes, B. (1947). The Trematoda of British Fishes. Ray Society, London. 364 pp.
redescription	Janiszewska, J. (1953). Some Adriatic Sea fish trematodes. Zoologica Poloniae. 6, 20–48.
redescription	Looss, A. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Distomenfamilie Hemiuridae. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 31, 585–620.
redescription	Timon-David, J. (1937). Étude sur les trématodes parasites des poissons du golfe de Marseille. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique de Monaco. 717: 1–24.
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).
new combination reference	Lühe, M. (1901). Ueber Hemiuriden. (Ein Beitrag zur Systematik der digenetischen Trematoden). Zoologischer Anzeiger. 24, 394-403, 473-488.
taxonomy source	Vilas, R., Paniagua, E., Outeiral, S., Sanmartín, M. (2002). Electrophoretic and morphological differentiation of three sympatric species of the genus Lecithochirium (Trematoda: Hemiuridae), parasites of marine fishes. Parasitology Research. 88 (12): 1055–1060.
biology source	Vilas, R.; Paniagua, E.; Sanmartín, M. L. (2002). Allozyme markers for the identification of Lecithochirium rufoviride and Lecithochirium furcolabiatum (Trematoda: Hemiuridae), Parasites of Conger conger and Anguilla anguilla from Atlantic Spanish waters. Journal of Parasitology. 88 (4): 822–825.