Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Gymnophallata > Superfamily Gymnophalloidea > Family Gymnophallidae > Genus Gymnophallus

Gymnophallus fossarum Bartoli, 1965

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Gymnophallus*	Odhner, 1900	accepted genus name
*Meiogymnophallus*	Ching, 1965	synonym
*Gymnophallus*	auct.	misapplied name

Species group names

*Meiogymnophallus fossarum*	(Bartoli, 1965) Bowers, Bartoli & James, 1990	synonym
*Parvatrema fossarum*	(Bartoli, 1965)	synonym

Literature

original description	Bartoli. P. (1965). Developpement experimental d'une metacercaire nouvelle de la famille des Gymnophallidae Morozov, 1955. (Trematoda, Digenea) parasite de lamellibranches marins. Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France. 90: 571–580.
redescription	Bartoli, P. (1972). Les cycles biologiques de Gymnophallus nereicola J. Rebecq et G. Prévot, 1962 et G. fossarum P. Bartoli, 1965, espèces jumelles parasites d'Oiseaux de rivages marins (Trematoda, Digenea, Gymnophallidae). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 47 (2): 193–223.
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	Bartoli, P.; Gibson, D. I. (2007). Synopsis of the life cycles of Digenea (Platyhelminthes) from lagoons of the northern coast of the western Mediterranean. Journal of Natural History. 41 (25-28): 1553–1570.