Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Diplostomida > Suborder Diplostomata > Superfamily Schistosomatoidea > Family Aporocotylidae > Genus Skoulekia

Skoulekia erythrini Palacios-Abella, Georgieva, Mele, Raga, Isbert, Kostadinova & Montero, 2017

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Skoulekia*	Alama-Bermejo, Montero, Raga & Holzer, 2011	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Palacios-Abella, J. F.; Georgieva, S.; Mele, S.; Raga, J. A.; Isbert, W.; Kostadinova, A.; Montero, F. E. (2017). Skoulekia erythrini n. sp. (Digenea: Aporocotylidae): a parasite of Pagellus erythrinus (L.) (Perciformes: Sparidae) from the western Mediterranean with an amendment of the generic diagnosis. Systematic Parasitology.
additional source	Palacios-Abella, J. F.; Raga, J. A.; Mele, S.; Montero, F. E. (2018). Blood fluke diseases in Pagellus spp. (Sparidae): Pathology and description of a new species of Skoulekia in the blackspot seabream P. bogaraveo (Brünnich). Aquaculture. 495: 472-483.

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Skoulekia erythrini Palacios-Abella, Georgieva, Mele, Raga, Isbert, Kostadinova & Montero, 2017. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=994029