MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Meiogymnophallus minutus (Cobbold, 1859) Bowers & James, 1967

WoRMS name details

Meiogymnophallus minutus (Cobbold, 1859) Bowers & James, 1967

AphiaID

109230 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:109230)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted Name

Parvatrema minutum (Cobbold, 1859) accepted as Gymnophallus minutus (Cobbold, 1859)

Rank

Species

Parent

Meiogymnophallus Ching, 1965 accepted as Gymnophallus Odhner, 1900

Original name

Distoma minutum Cobbold, 1859

Synonymised names

Cercaria margaritae Lebour, 1911 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Gymnophalloides oedemiae (Jameson & Nicoll, 1913) James, 1964 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

marine, terrestrial

Original description

(of Distoma minutum Cobbold, 1859) Cobbold, T. S. (1859). On some new forms of entozoa. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 22 (4): 363–366.
page(s): 364 [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Meiogymnophallus minutus (Cobbold, 1859) Bowers & James, 1967. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=109230 on 2025-04-02

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gibson, David

2012-10-12 09:41:10Z

changed

Gibson, David

2013-07-18 12:27:11Z

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Gibson, David

2022-10-03 08:07:23Z

changed

Bray, Rod

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Distoma minutum Cobbold, 1859) Cobbold, T. S. (1859). On some new forms of entozoa. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 22 (4): 363–366.
page(s): 364 [details]

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 (look up in IMIS) [details]

new combination reference Bowers, E. A.; James, B. L. (1967). Studies on the morphology, ecology and life-cycle of Meiogytnnophallus minutus (Cobbold, 1859) comb. nov. (Trematoda: Gymnophallidae). Parasitology. 57 (2): 281–300., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182000072097
page(s): 281 [details]

Taxonomy

redescription Bowers, E. A.; Bartoli, P.; James, B. L. (1990). A demonstration of allopatric sibling species within the Gymnophallidae (Digenea). Systematic Parasitology. 17: 143–152.
page(s): 147 [details]

redescription 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.
page(s): 207 [details]

redescription Bowers, E. A.; James, B. L. (1967). Studies on the morphology, ecology and life-cycle of Meiogytnnophallus minutus (Cobbold, 1859) comb. nov. (Trematoda: Gymnophallidae). Parasitology. 57 (2): 281–300., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182000072097
page(s): 291 [details]

Other

additional source Johns, P.; Newman, L.J.; Holleman, J.J.; Dawson, E.W.; Sterrer, W.; Allison, F.R.; Diggles, B.K.; Andrews, J.R.H.; Hine, P.M.; McKenna, P.B.; Poulin, R. (2009). Phylum Platyhelminthes: flatworms, tapeworms, flukes, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 102-128. [details]

additional source Russell-Pinto, F.; Gonçalves, J. F.; Bowers, E. (2006). Digenean larvae parasitizing Cerastoderma edule (Bivalvia) and Nassarius reticulatus (Gastropoda) from Ria de Aveiro, Portugal. Journal of Parasitology. 92 (2): 319–332., available online at https://doi.org/10.1645/ge-3510.1
page(s): 327 [details]