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

Gyrodactylus groenlandicus Levinsen, 1881

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Gyrodactylus*	von Nordmann, 1832	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Levinsen, G.M.R. (1881). Bidrag til kundskap om Gronlands trematodfauna. Oversigt over det kongelige Dansk videnskadernes Selskabs Forhandlinger. 23: 52-84.
basis of record	Margolis, L. & Z. Kabata (eds.). (1984). Guide to the parasites of fishes of Canada. Part 1. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 74:1-209.
additional source	Beverley-Burton, M. (1984). Monogenea and Turbellaria. In: Guide to the Parasites of Fishes of Canada, Part 1. (Edited by L. Margolis & Z. Kabata). Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Ottawa. 209 pp.
additional source	Cone, D.K. & Wiles, M. (1983). Comparative morphology of Gyrodactylus groenlandicus Levinsen, 1881, G. nainum Hanek & Threlfall, 1970, G. pleuronecti Cone, 1981 and G. adspersi from Northwest Atlantic fishes. Canadian Journal of Zoology 61 417-422.
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.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).