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 Plerurinae > Genus Plerurus

Plerurus digitatus (Looss, 1899) Looss, 1907

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Plerurus*	Looss, 1907	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Hemiurus digitatus*	Looss, 1899	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	Cribb, T.H., Bray, R.A., Littlewood, D.T.J., Pichelin, S., Herniou, E.A. (2001). The Digenea. In: Littlewood, D.T.J. & Bray, R.A. (Eds). Interrelationships of the Platyhelminthes. London: Taylor & Francis, 168-185.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Barker, S. C., Blair, D., Garrett, A. R., Cribb, T.H. (1993). Utility of the D1 domain of nuclear 28S rRNA for phylogenetic inference in the Digenea. Systematic Parasitology. 26: 181–188.
source of synonymy	Bray, R. A. (1990). Hemiuridae (Digenea) from marine fishes of the southern Indian Ocean: Dinurinae, Elytrophallinae, Glomericirrinae and Plerurinae. Systematic Parasitology. 17(3): 183-217.
redescription	Bray, R. A.; Cribb, T. H.; Barker, S. C. (1993). Hemiuridae (Digenea) from marine fishes of the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. Systematic Parasitology. 25(1): 37-62.
redescription	Madhavi, R., Bray, R. A. (2018). Digenetic Trematodes of Indian Marine Fishes. Springer, Dordrecht, 693 pp.
redescription	Looss, A. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Distomenfamilie Hemiuridae. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 31, 585–620.
redescription	Skrjabin, K. I., Guschanskaja, L. K. (1955). Suborder Hemiurata (Markevitsch) Skrjabin & Guschanskaja, 1954. Second part. Osnovy Trematodologii. 10: 337–649. (In Russian).
new combination reference	Looss, A. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Distomenfamilie Hemiuridae. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 31, 585–620.