MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Microphallinae Ward, 1901

ERMS taxon details

Microphallinae Ward, 1901

AphiaID

767760 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:767760)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Subfamily

Parent

Microphallidae Ward, 1901

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Genus Megalophallus Cable, Connor & Balling, 1960
Genus Microphallus Ward, 1901
Genus Spelotrema Jägerskiöld, 1901 accepted as Microphallus Ward, 1901 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Ward, H. B. (1901). Notes on the parasites of the lake fish: III. On the structure of the copulatory organs in Microphallus nov. gen. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 22: 175–187., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3221320
page(s): 185 [details]

Taxonomic citation

ERMS (2025). Microphallinae Ward, 1901. Accessed at: http://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=767760 on 2026-07-20

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Microphallinae Ward, 1901. Accessed at: https://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=767760 on 2026-07-20

Taxonomic edit history

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2014-07-25 06:05:02Z

created

Gibson, David

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original description Ward, H. B. (1901). Notes on the parasites of the lake fish: III. On the structure of the copulatory organs in Microphallus nov. gen. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 22: 175–187., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3221320
page(s): 185 [details]

identification resource Deblock, S. (2008). Family Microphallidae Ward, 1901. In: Bray, R. A.; Gibson, D. I.; Jones, A. (Eds.). Keys to the Trematoda. Vol. 3. Walllingford, CABI and Natural History Museum, pp. 451–492., available online at https://doi.org/10.1079/9780851995885.0451
page(s): 480 [details]

identification resource Belopolskaja, M. M. (1952). Trematode family Microphallidae Travassos, 1920. Osnovy Trematodologii. 6: 618–756 (In Russian).
page(s): 622 [details]

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