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 jaffense Fischthal, 1982

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

Literature

original description	Fischthal, J. H. (1982). Additional Records of digenetic trematodes of marine fishes from Israel's Mediterranean Coast. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington,. 49 (1): 34-44.
additional source	Boussellaa, W., Boudaya, L., Derbel, H., Neifar, L. (2016). A new record of the Lessepsian fish Etrumeus golanii (Teleostei: Clupeidae) in the Gulf of Gabes, Tunisia, with notes on its parasites. Cah. Biol. Mar. 57 : 389-395.
redescription	Bray, R. A. (1991). Hemiuridae (Digenea) from marine fishes of the southern Indian Ocean: Genus Lecithochirium Lühe, 1901 (Lecithochiriinae). Systematic Parasitology. 18(3): 193-219.