Galapagos Species Database
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Neobenedenia muelleri
Platelminto, Flatworm
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Platyhelminthes
Class
Monogenea
Order
Capsalidea
Family
Capsalidae
Genus
Neobenedenia
Species
muelleri
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Benedenia muelleri (Meserve, 1938) Meserve, 1939, Entobdella muelleri Meserve, 1938 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
- 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.
- Meserve, F.G. (1938) Some monogenetic trematodes from the Galapagos Islands and the neighboring Pacific. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions 2(5): 31-89.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Neobenedenia muelleri", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20148. Accessed 1 November 2026.