Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Echinostomata > Superfamily Echinostomatoidea > Family Echinochasmidae > Genus Mesorchis

Mesorchis polycestus Dietz, 1909

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mesorchis*	Dietz, 1909	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Mesorcchis polycestus*	Dietz, 1909	objective synonym
*Stephanoprora reynoldsi*	Bhalerao, 1926	subjective synonym
*Mesorchis reynoldi*	(Bhalerao, 1926) Skrjabin & Baschkirova, 1956	synonym
*Stephanoprora polycestus*	(Dietz, 1909) Beaver, 1937	synonym
*Stephanoprora reynoldi*	Bhalerao, 1926	synonym

Literature

original description	Dietz, E. (1909). Die Echinostomiden der Vogel. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 34: 180–192.
redescription	Lühe, M. (1909). Parasitische Plattwürmer. I: Trematodes. Süsswasserfauna Deutschlands. 17, 1-217.
redescription	Dietz, E. (1910). Die Echinostomiden der Vögel. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Suppl. 12, 3: 265–512.
taxonomy source	Cajiao-Mora, K.; Dutton, H.; Jacobs, F.; Beytell, P.; Netherlands, E.; DuPreez, L.; Bullard, S. (2025). Supplemental description of Stephanoprora ornata Odhner, 1902 (Digenea: Echinochasmidae) infecting the Nile crocodile, Crocodylus niloticus (Crocodylidae) from Namibia with emendation of Mesorchis Dietz, 1909 and a phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Helminthology. 99.