Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Monogenea > Subclass Monopisthocotylea > Order Gyrodactylidea > Family Gyrodactylidae > Genus Gyrodactylus

Gyrodactylus branchicus Malmberg, 1964

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Gyrodactylus*	von Nordmann, 1832	accepted genus name

Literature

basis of record	Bray, R.A. (2001). Monogenea, 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. 142-146
additional source	Malmberg, G. (1970). The excretory systems and the marginal hooks as a basis for the systematics of Gyrodactylus (Trematoda, Monogenea). Arkiv for Zoologie 23 1-237.
additional source	Harris, P.; Shinn, A.; Cable, J.; Bakke, T. (2004). Nominal species of the genus Gyrodactylus von Nordmann 1832 (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae), with a list of principal host species. Systematic Parasitology. 59(1): 1-27.
redescription	Ziętara, M. S., Lumme, J. (2003). The crossroads of molecular, typological and biological species concepts: two new species of Gyrodactylus Nordmann, 1832 (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae). Systematic Parasitology. 55(1): 39-52.