Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Prosorhynchus pacificus
platelminto, flatworm
endoparasite
found in ceca of Mycteroperca olfax (Bacalao) and M. xenarcha (Broomtail grouper)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Platyhelminthes
Class
Trematoda
Order
Plagiorchiida
Suborder
Bucephalata
Superfamily
Bucephaloidea
Family
Bucephalidae
Genus
Prosorhynchus
Species
pacificus
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Manter, H.W. (1940) The geographical distribution of digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of the tropical American Pacific. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions 2(16): 531-547
- Manter, H.W. (1940) Digenetic trematodes of fishes from the Galapagos Islands and the neighboring Pacific. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions 2(14): 329-497.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Prosorhynchus pacificus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12668. Accessed 1 November 2026.