WoRMS taxon details
Pronocephalus Looss, 1899
725419 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:725419)
accepted
Genus
Pronocephalus obliquus Looss, 1899 (type by subsequent designation)
- Species Pronocephalus obliquus Looss, 1899
- Species Pronocephalus mehrai Chattopadhyaya, 1972 accepted as Pronocephalus obliquus Looss, 1899 (synonym)
- Species Pronocephalus minutus Ruiz, 1946 accepted as Ruicephalus minutus (Ruiz, 1946) Skrjabin, 1955 (synonym)
- Species Pronocephalus renicapite (Leidy, 1856) Pratt, 1916 accepted as Astrorchis renicapite (Leidy, 1856) Poche, 1926 accepted as Pyelosomum renicapite (Leidy, 1856) Ruiz, 1946 (Superseded combination)
- Species Pronocephalus trigonocephalus (Rudolphi, 1809) Looss, 1899 accepted as Pleurogonius trigonocephalus (Rudolphi, 1809) Looss, 1901 (Superseded combination)
marine
masculine
Looss, A. (1899). Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Trematoden-Fauna Aegyptens, zugleich Versuch einer natürlichen Gliederung des Genus Distomum Retzius. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher.</em> 12: 521-784., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.2037
page(s): 666; note: type originally as P. trigonocephalus (Rud), but later recognied as P. obliquus - see Blair (2005) [details]
page(s): 666; note: type originally as P. trigonocephalus (Rud), but later recognied as P. obliquus - see Blair (2005) [details]
WoRMS (2025). Pronocephalus Looss, 1899. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=725419 on 2025-04-28
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Nomenclature
original description
Looss, A. (1899). Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Trematoden-Fauna Aegyptens, zugleich Versuch einer natürlichen Gliederung des Genus Distomum Retzius. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher.</em> 12: 521-784., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.2037
page(s): 666; note: type originally as P. trigonocephalus (Rud), but later recognied as P. obliquus - see Blair (2005) [details]
page(s): 666; note: type originally as P. trigonocephalus (Rud), but later recognied as P. obliquus - see Blair (2005) [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Skrjabin, K. I. (1955). Suborder Pronocephalata Skrjabin, 1955. <em>Osnovy Trematodologii.</em> 10, 5–210. (In Russian).
page(s): 15 [details]
identification resource Blair, D. (2005). Family Pronocephalidae Looss, 1899. In: Jones, A., Bray, R. A & Gibson, D. I. (Eds). <em>Keys to the Trematoda, Volume 2.</em> Wallingford: CABI Publishing and the Natural History Museum, pp. 361–380.
page(s): 367 [details]
page(s): 15 [details]
identification resource Blair, D. (2005). Family Pronocephalidae Looss, 1899. In: Jones, A., Bray, R. A & Gibson, D. I. (Eds). <em>Keys to the Trematoda, Volume 2.</em> Wallingford: CABI Publishing and the Natural History Museum, pp. 361–380.
page(s): 367 [details]
