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

Gyrodactylus pterygialis Bychowsky & Polyansky, 1953

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Gyrodactylus*	von Nordmann, 1832	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Gyrodactylus alviga*	Dmitrieva & Gerasev, 2000	synonym

Literature

original description	Bychowsky, B. E.; Poljansky, Y. I. (1953). [contribution towards the knowledge of marine monogenetic trematodes of the family Gyrodactylidae Cobb.]. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Leningrad. 13In Russian : 91-126.
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	Hodneland, K. & Nilsen, F. (1994). On the occurrence of Gyrodactylus pterygialis from saithe Pollachius virens in a Norwegian fiord. Journal of Parasitology 80 938-945.
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	Prokhorova, D.; Vodiasova, E.; Dmitrieva, E. (2025). Molecular and morphological characterisation of Gyrodactylus alviga (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae) from the Black Sea, and its synonymisation with G. pterygialis from the North European seas. Systematic Parasitology. 102(1).