Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Xiphidiata > Superfamily Microphalloidea > Family Microphallidae > Subfamily Maritrematinae > Genus Maritrema

Maritrema gratiosum Nicoll, 1907

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Maritrema*	Nicoll, 1907	accepted genus name
*Maritreminoides*	auct.	misapplied name
*Pseudomaritrema*	auct.	misapplied name
*Spelotrema*	auct.	misapplied name

Species group names

*Maritrema arenaria*	Hadley & Castle, 1940	synonym

Literature

original description	Nicoll, W. (1907). Observations on the trematode parasites of British birds. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7. s. (117), v. 20: 245–271.
basis of record	Johns, P.; Newman, L.J.; Holleman, J.J.; Dawson, E.W.; Sterrer, W.; Allison, F.R.; Diggles, B.K.; Andrews, J.R.H.; Hine, P.M.; McKenna, P.B.; Poulin, R. (2009). Phylum Platyhelminthes: flatworms, tapeworms, flukes, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 102-128.
additional source	Smogorzhevskaya, L.A. (1976). Helminths of diving and marsh birds of the fauna of the Ukraine. Naukova Dumka, Kiev, 415 pp. (In Russian).
additional source	Ching, H. L. (1978). New marine hosts for Parorchis acanthus, Cryptocotyle lingua, Maritrema megametrios, and Maritrema gratiosum, trematodes of birds from British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 56 (8): 1877–1879.
redescription	Deblock, S.; Tran Van Ky, P. (1966). Contribution à l'étude des Microphallidae Travassos, 1920 (Trematoda)-XII. Espèces d'Europe occidentale. Création de Sphairiotrema nov. gen.; Considérations diverses de systématique (à propos des collections de Microphallidés du British Museum de Londres et du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Göteborg-Suède). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 41 (1): 23–60.
redescription	Sonin, M. D. (1985). Key to identification of trematodes of piscivorous birds of the Palaearctic (Brachylaimida, Clinostomida, Cyclocoelida, Fasciolida, Notocotylida, Plagiorchida, Schistosomatida). Nauka, Moscow, 256 pp. (In Russian).
redescription	Uspenskaya, A. V. (1963). Barents Sea benthic crustacean parasite fauna. Moscow, Leningrad, Publishing houses in the Soviet Union, 128 pp. (In Russian).
redescription	Belopolskaja, M. M. (1952). Trematode family Microphallidae Travassos, 1920. Osnovy Trematodologii. 6: 618–756 (In Russian).
redescription	Oshmarin, P. G. (1963). Helminth parasites of mammals and birds in the region of Primorye. Izdatelstvo Akademii Nauk SSSR: Moscow, 323 pp. (In Russian).
redescription	Greze, V. N., Delyamure, S. L. & Nikolaeva, V. M. (Eds.). (1975). Key to the parasites of vertebrates of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 551 pp. (In Russian).
biology source	Yamaguti S. (1975). A synoptical review of life histories of digenetic trematodes of vertebrates with special reference to the morphology of their larval forms. Tokyo, Keigaku Publishing Co. pp. LXI I + 590 + 219 plates.
biology source	Ching, H. 1991. Lists of larval worms from marine invertebrates of the Pacific Coast of North America. Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington 58: 57-68.