Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Hemiurata > Superfamily Hemiuroidea > Family Hemiuridae > Subfamily Lecithochiriinae > Genus Lecithochirium

Lecithochirium grandiporum (Rudolphi, 1819) Lühe, 1901

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lecithochirium*	Lühe, 1901	accepted genus name
*Ceratotrema*	Jones, 1933	synonym
*Sterrhurus*	Looss, 1907	synonym

Species group names

*Distoma grandiporum*	Rudolphi, 1819	synonym
*Lecithochirium fusiforme*	Lühe, 1901	synonym
*Sterrhurus fusiformis*	(Lühe, 1901) Looss, 1907	synonym

Literature

additional source	Radujkovic, B.; Sundic, D. (2014). Parasitic flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea, Digenea, Cestoda) of fishes from the Adriatic Sea. Natura Montenegrina. 13 (1):7–280.
redescription	Lühe, M. (1901). Ueber Hemiuriden. (Ein Beitrag zur Systematik der digenetischen Trematoden). Zoologischer Anzeiger. 24, 394-403, 473-488.
redescription	Morsy, K.; Bashtar, A.-R.; Abdel-Ghaffar, F.; Baksh, W. (2012). First record of Lecithochirium grandiporum (Digenea: Hemiuridae) infecting the lizard fish Saurida tumbil from the Red Sea. Parasitology Research. 111 (6): 2339–2344.
redescription	Abdel-Ghaffar, F.; Bashtar, A.-R.; Mehlhorn, H.; Abdel-Gaber, R.; Saleh, R. (2013). Morphological and molecular characterization of Lecithochirium grandiporum (Digenea: Hemiuridae) infecting the European eel Anguilla anguilla as a new host record in Egypt. Parasitology Research. 112 (9): 3243–3250.
redescription	Bartoli, P.; Gibson, D. I. (2007). The status of Lecithochirium grandiporum (Rudolphi, 1819) (Digenea: Hemiuridae), a rarely reported and poorly known species from the Mediterranean moray eel Muraena helena L. in the Western Mediterranean. Systematic Parasitology. 68(3): 183-194.
redescription	Linton, E. (1901). Parasites of fishes of the Woods Hole region. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. (1899), 19, 405–492.
redescription	Skrjabin, K. I., Guschanskaja, L. K. (1955). Suborder Hemiurata (Markevitsch) Skrjabin & Guschanskaja, 1954. Second part. Osnovy Trematodologii. 10: 337–649. (In Russian).
new combination reference	Lühe, M. (1901). Ueber Hemiuriden. (Ein Beitrag zur Systematik der digenetischen Trematoden). Zoologischer Anzeiger. 24, 394-403, 473-488.
taxonomy source	Bartoli, P.; Gibson, D. I. (2007). The status of Lecithochirium grandiporum (Rudolphi, 1819) (Digenea: Hemiuridae), a rarely reported and poorly known species from the Mediterranean moray eel Muraena helena L. in the Western Mediterranean. Systematic Parasitology. 68(3): 183-194.