Galapagos Species Database

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Prodistomum orientale (Layman, 1930) Bray & Gibson, 1990

Platelminto, Flatworm

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Platyhelminthes

Class
Trematoda

Order
Plagiorchiida

Suborder
Lepocreadiata

Superfamily
Lepocreadioidea

Family
Lepocreadiidae

Genus
Prodistomum

Species
orientale

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Acanthocolpoides guevarai Lopez-Roman, 1979, Acanthocolpoides israelensis Fischthal, 1980, Acanthocolpoides pauloi Travassos & Teixeira de Freitas, 1965, Lepocreadium ghanense Fischthal & Thomas, 1970, Lepocreadium ghanensis Fischthal & Thomas, 1970, Lepocreadium puriense Gupta & Gupta, 1987, Lepocreadium puriensis Gupta & Gupta, 1987 (Malformed suffix), Lepocreadium retrusum Linton, 1940, Lepocreadium scombri (Yamaguti, 1938) Ching, 1960, Neolepidapedon retrusum (Linton, 1940) Sogandares-Bernal & Hutton, 1960, Opechona orientalis (Layman, 1930) Ward & Fillingham, 1934, Opechona scombri Yamaguti, 1938, Pharyngora orientalis Layman, 1930, Prodistomum guevarai (Lopez-Roman, 1979), Prodistomum israelensis (Fischthal, 1980), Prodistomum orientalis (Layman, 1930) Bray & Gibson, 1990, Prodistomum pauloi (Travassos & Teixeira de Freitas, 1965) (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

References

  • 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, Prodistomum orientale", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20155. Accessed 1 November 2026.