Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Opisthorchiata > Superfamily Opisthorchioidea > Family Cryptogonimidae > Genus Acanthostomum

Acanthostomum spiniceps (Looss, 1896) Looss, 1899

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Acanthostomum*	Looss, 1899	accepted genus name
*Acanthochasmus*	Looss, 1901	synonym

Species group names

*Distomum spiniceps*	Looss, 1896	synonym

Literature

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additional source	Mansour, M. F. A. (2012). Ultrastructure of the spermatozoon of Acanthostomum spiniceps (Digenea: Acanthostomidae), a parasite of Bagrus spp. (Siluriformes:Bagridae). Parasitology Research. 110 (4): 1357–1362.
additional source	Kudlai, O.; Scholz,T.; Smit, N. (2018). Trematoda. In: Scholz,T.; Vanhove, M. P. M.; Smit, N.; Jayasundera, Z. & Gelnar, M. A Guide to the Parasites of African Freshwater Fishes. CEBioS, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels. pp. 245-268.
redescription	Al Ghamdi, A. (2018). Redescription of Acanthostomum spiniceps (Digenea) Infecting Lates niloticus (Perciformes: Latidae) on the basis of light microscopy. World Applied Sciences Journal. 6 (4): 619–623.
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).
redescription	Moravec F. (1976). On two acanthostomatid trematodes, Acanthostomum spiniceps (Looss, 1896) and A. absconditum (Looss, 1901), from African bagrid fishes,. Folia Parasitologica. 23 : 201–206.
redescription	Allam, H. E.; Mashaly, M. I.; El-Naggar, M. M. (2023). Light and scanning electron microscope observations of the digenean intestinal parasite Acanthostomum spiniceps Looss 1896 (Cryptogonimidae) from the catfish Bagrus bajad and B. docmak. Zoomorphology. 142(3): 285-298.
redescription	Fischthal, J. H., Kuntz, R. E. (1963). Trematode parasites of fishes from Egypt. Part V. Annotated record of some previously described forms. Journal of Parasitology. 49 (1): 91-98.
redescription	Fernandes, B. M. M., Pinto, R. M., Cohen, S. C. (2002). Report on two species of Digenea from marine fishes in Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Biology. 62 (3): 459–462.
redescription	Mansour, A.; Hussein, A.-N.; Ammar, K.; Morsy, K. (2021). Annotated record of digenean parasites collected from fishes of the River Nile in Qena and Aswan governorates, Egypt. SVU-International Journal of Veterinary Sciences. 4(4): 68-84.
redescription	Morsy, K.; El-Fayoumi, H.; Ali, S. (2013). Acanthostomum spiniceps (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae: Acanthostominae), a parasite of the African snook Lates niloticus (Perciformes: Latidae). a light and scanning electron microscopic study. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology. 43 (3): 697–704.
redescription	Ibraheem, M. H. (2006). On the morphology of Acanthostomum spiniceps (Looss, 1896) and A. absconditum (Looss, 1901) (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae: Acanthostominae) with particular reference to the juvenile stage. Acta Zoologica. 87 (3): 159–169.
redescription	Dollfus, R. P. (1932). Mission Saharienne Augiéras Draper, 1927-1928. Trématodes de mammifères, oiseaux et poissons. Bulletin du Museum national d'histoire naturelle. 2. s., v. 4 (5): 555-563.
redescription	Abdel-Gaber, R.; Abdel-Ghaffar, F.; Mehlhorn, H.; Al Quraishy, S.; Morsy, K.; Maher, S. (2018). Light microscopic study of four plagiorchiid trematodes infecting marine fish in the south-eastern Mediterranean Sea, Alexandria City, with descriptions of two new species. Parasitology Research.
redescription	Morozov, F. N. (1955). Suborder Heterophyata Morosov, 1955. Osnovy Trematodologii. 10: 241-335. (In Russian).
new combination reference	Looss, A. (1899). Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Trematoden-Fauna Aegyptens, zugleich Versuch einer natürlichen Gliederung des Genus Distomum Retzius. Zoologische Jahrbücher. 12: 521-784.