MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Microphallus excellens (Nicoll, 1907) Baer, 1944

WoRMS name details

Microphallus excellens (Nicoll, 1907) Baer, 1944

AphiaID

706523 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:706523)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Accepted name

Microphallus similis (Jägerskiöld, 1900) Baer, 1944

Rank

Species

Parent

Microphallus Ward, 1901

Original name

Spelotrema excellens Nicoll, 1907

Synonymised names

Spelotrema excellens Nicoll, 1907 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Spelotrema excellens Nicoll, 1907) Nicoll, W. (1907). Observations on the trematode parasites of British birds. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7. s. (117), v. 20: 245–271.
page(s): 248 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in United Kingdom part of the North Sea

type locality contained in United Kingdom part of the North Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Microphallus excellens (Nicoll, 1907) Baer, 1944. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=706523 on 2025-05-29

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2012-09-28 10:50:19Z

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Gibson, David

2014-07-25 06:05:02Z

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Gibson, David

2019-10-14 13:14:06Z

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Bray, Rod

2020-08-31 13:12:35Z

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Bray, Rod

2022-04-06 08:53:18Z

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Bray, Rod

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Spelotrema excellens Nicoll, 1907) Nicoll, W. (1907). Observations on the trematode parasites of British birds. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7. s. (117), v. 20: 245–271.
page(s): 248 [details]

new combination reference Baer, J. (1944). Les trematodes parasites de la musaraigne d'eau Neomys fodiens (Schreb.). Bulletin de la Societe Neuchateloise des Sciences Naturelles. 68: 33–84.
page(s): 70 [details]

Taxonomy

redescription Greze, V. N., Delyamure, S. L. & Nikolaeva, V. M. (Eds.). (1975). Key to the parasites of vertebrates of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 551 pp. (In Russian).
page(s): 207 [details]

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).
page(s): 178 [details]

redescription Uspenskaya, A. V. (1963). Barents Sea benthic crustacean parasite fauna. Moscow, Leningrad, Publishing houses in the Soviet Union, 128 pp. (In Russian). [details]

Other

additional source Deblock, S.; Tran Van Ky, P. (1966). Contribution à l'étude des Microphallidae Travassos, 1920 (Trematoda)-XII. Espèces d'Europe occidentale. Création de Sphairiotrema nov. gen.; Considérations diverses de systématique (à propos des collections de Microphallidés du British Museum de Londres et du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Göteborg-Suède). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 41 (1): 23–60.
page(s): 39 [details]

additional source Nahhas, F. M., & Cable, R. M. (1964). Digenetic and aspidogastrid trematodes from marine fishes of Curacao and Jamaica. Tulane Studies in Zoology. 11: 169–228.
page(s): 184; note: renamed M. caribbensis Deblock & Cable, 1966 [details]

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).
page(s): 63 [details]

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Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) (from synonym Spelotrema excellens Nicoll, 1907)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Spelotrema excellens Nicoll, 1907)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Spelotrema excellens Nicoll, 1907)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (1 record)