Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Xiphidiata > Superfamily Plagiorchioidea > Family Plagiorchiidae > Genus Plagiorchis

Plagiorchis nanus (Rudolphi, 1802) Braun, 1901

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Plagiorchis*	Lühe, 1899	accepted genus name
*Cercolecithos*	Perkins, 1928	generic synonym
*Lepoderma*	Looss, 1899	generic synonym
*Metaplagiorchis*	Timofeeva, 1962	generic synonym
*Symmetritesticula*	Krasnolobova, 1977	generic synonym
*Lecithopyge*	auct.	misapplied name
*Opisthioglyphe*	auct.	misapplied name
*Rubenstrema*	auct.	misapplied name
*Skrjabinoplagiorchis*	auct.	misapplied name

Species group names

*Fasciola nanus*	Rudolphi, 1802	objective synonym
*Fasciola nana*	Rudolphi, 1802	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Gibson, D.I. (2001). Digenea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 136-142
additional source	Smogorzhevskaya, L.A. (1976). Helminths of diving and marsh birds of the fauna of the Ukraine. Naukova Dumka, Kiev, 415 pp. (In Russian).
redescription	Sharpilo, V. P., Iskova, N. I. (1989). The fauna of the Ukraine. Trematodes: Plagiorchiata. Fauna Ukrayiny. 34 (3): 1-278. (In Ukrainian).
redescription	Lühe, M. (1909). Parasitische Plattwürmer. I: Trematodes. Süsswasserfauna Deutschlands. 17, 1-217.
redescription	Bychovskaja-Pavlovskaja, I. E. (1953). The fauna of bird trematodes of West Siberia and their dynamics. Parazitologicheskii Sbornik. 15: 5–116. (In Russian).
redescription	Skrjabin, K. I., Antipin, D. N. (1958). Superfamily Plagiorchioidea Dollfus, 1930. Part two. Family Plagiorchidae Luhe, 1901. Osnovy Trematodologii. 14, 73–631. (In Russian).
redescription	Sudarikov, V. E., Shigin, A. A., Kurochkin, Y. V., Lomakin, V. V., Stenko, R. P., Yurlova, N. I. (2002). Trematode metacercariae - Parasites of freshwater hydrobionts in central Russia. Volume 1. Moscow, Nauka, 298 pp. (In Russian).
redescription	Sonin, M. D. (1985). Key to identification of trematodes of piscivorous birds of the Palaearctic (Brachylaimida, Clinostomida, Cyclocoelida, Fasciolida, Notocotylida, Plagiorchida, Schistosomatida). Nauka, Moscow, 256 pp. (In Russian).
new combination reference	Braun, M. (1901). Zur Revision der Trematoden der Vögel. I. Centralblatt. Bakteriol. 1 Abt. 29 (13): 560–568.
taxonomy source	Krasnolobova, T. A. (1977). Principles of systematics of the trematode genus Plagiorchis Luhe, 1899. Trudy Gel'mintologicheskoi Laboratorii. Akademiya Nauk SSSR. 27: 65–110. (In Russian).