MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Brachylaima Dujardin, 1843

WoRMS taxon details

Brachylaima Dujardin, 1843

AphiaID

108689 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:108689)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Brachylaima migrans Dujardin, 1845

Parent

Brachylaimidae Joyeux & Foley, 1930

Synonymised names

Brachylaima (Centrodes) Travassos & Kohn, 1964 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (pre-occupied)

Brachylaima (Mazzantia) Travassos & Kohn, 1964 · unaccepted > superseded rank

Distoma (Brachylaimus) Dujardin, 1845 · unaccepted > junior objective synonym

Entosiphonus Sinitsin, 1931 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Harmostomum Braun, 1899 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Heterolope Looss, 1899 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Rallitrema Travassos & Kohn, 1964 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Species Brachylaima fuscata (Rudolphi, 1819) Joyeux, Baer & Timon-David, 1932
Species Brachylaima validum (von Linstow, 1886) Stossich, 1892
Species Brachylaima fuscatum (Rudolphi, 1819) Joyeux, Baer & Timon-David, 1932 accepted as Brachylaima fuscata (Rudolphi, 1819) Joyeux, Baer & Timon-David, 1932 (unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet)

Environment

marine, fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Dujardin, F. (1843). Mémoire sur les helminthes des musaraignes, et en particulier sur les trichosomes, les distomes et les Taenias, sur les métamorphoses et leurs transmigrations. Ann. Sc. Nat.. Zool. Ser. 2, 20: 329–349.
page(s): 338 [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Brachylaima Dujardin, 1843. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=108689 on 2025-06-01

Taxonomic edit history

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Gibson, David

2006-09-06 06:55:51Z

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Gibson, David

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2024-11-27 18:58:31Z

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Gibson, David

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Nomenclature

original description Dujardin, F. (1843). Mémoire sur les helminthes des musaraignes, et en particulier sur les trichosomes, les distomes et les Taenias, sur les métamorphoses et leurs transmigrations. Ann. Sc. Nat.. Zool. Ser. 2, 20: 329–349.
page(s): 338 [details]

original description (of Harmostomum Braun, 1899) Braun, M. (1899). Über Clinostomum Leidy. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 22: 489-493.
page(s): 492 [details]

original description (of Distoma (Brachylaimus) Dujardin, 1845) Dujardin, F. (1845). Histoire naturelle des helminthes ou vers intestinaux. Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret. Paris. xvi + 654 + 15 pp., pls. 1-12.
page(s): 407 [details]

original description (of Heterolope Looss, 1899) Looss, A. (1899). Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Trematoden-Fauna Aegyptens, zugleich Versuch einer natürlichen Gliederung des Genus Distomum Retzius. Zoologische Jahrbücher. 12: 521-784., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.2037
page(s): 651 [details]

original description (of Entosiphonus Sinitsin, 1931) Sinitsin, D. (1931). Studien uber die Phylogenie der Trematoden. V. Revision of Harmostominae in the light of new facts from their morphology and life history. Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde. 3 (4): 786–835., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02146560
page(s): 820 [details]

original description (of Brachylaima (Centrodes) Travassos & Kohn, 1964) Travassos, L.; Kohn, A. (1964). Notas sobre 'Brachylaemoidea' (Trematoda). Atas Soc. Biol Rio de Janeiro. 8: 45–48.
page(s): 45 [details]

original description (of Brachylaima (Mazzantia) Travassos & Kohn, 1964) Travassos, L.; Kohn, A. (1964). Notas sobre 'Brachylaemoidea' (Trematoda). Atas Soc. Biol Rio de Janeiro. 8: 45–48.
page(s): 45 [details]

original description (of Rallitrema Travassos & Kohn, 1964) Travassos, L.; Kohn, A. (1964). Notas sobre 'Brachylaemoidea' (Trematoda). Atas Soc. Biol Rio de Janeiro. 8: 45–48.
page(s): 45 [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]

Identification resource

identification resource Skrjabin, K. I. (1948). Superfamily Fascioloidea Stiles et Goldberger 1910. Osnovy Trematodologii. 2: 7–336. (In Russian).
page(s): 171; note: spelled Brachylaemus [details]

Other

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

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