Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Haploporata > Superfamily Haploporoidea > Family Haploporidae > Subfamily Waretrematinae

Platydidymus Overstreet & Curran, 2005

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Hapalotrema Zhukov, 1971 synonym

Children

Platydidymus flecterotestis (Zhukov, 1971) Overstreet & Curran, 2005

Literature

original description

Overstreet, R. M.; Curran, S. S. (2005). Family Haploporidae Nicoll, 1914 In: Jones, A., Bray, R. A. & Gibson, D. I. (Eds) . Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 2. CAB Publishing and Natural History Museum, Wallingford. pp.129–165.

additional source

Moravec, F.; Nie, P. (2025). Studies on trematodes and acanthocephalans from freshwater fishes of Hubei Province, central China, with the erection of a new genus Quadrihexaspiron gen. n. (Acanthocephala: Neoechinorhynchidae). Folia Parasitologica. 72.

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Platydidymus Overstreet & Curran, 2005. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=765614

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh

Importance

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Last modified

2020-05-22 by Rod Bray

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