Marine Species Traits - Lepocreadium ghanense Fischthal & Thomas, 1970

WoRMS name details

Lepocreadium ghanense Fischthal & Thomas, 1970

AphiaID

727402 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:727402)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (synonym according to Bray & Gibson, 1990)

Accepted name

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

Rank

Species

Parent

Lepocreadium Stossich, 1904

Synonymised names

Lepocreadium ghanensis Fischthal & Thomas, 1970 · unaccepted (unavailable name: incorrect...)

unavailable name: incorrect original spelling

Environment

marine

Original description

Not documented

Type data

Type locality contained in Ghanaian part of the Gulf of Guinea

type locality contained in Ghanaian part of the Gulf of Guinea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Lepocreadium ghanense Fischthal & Thomas, 1970. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=727402 on 2025-05-13

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2013-04-16 09:58:56Z

created

Boxshall, Geoff

2013-11-18 12:39:36Z

changed

Gibson, David

Licensing

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Taxonomy

source of synonymy Bray, R. A., Gibson, D. I. (1990). The Lepocreadiidae (Digenea) of fishes of the north-east Atlantic: review of the genera Opechona Looss, 1907 and Prodistomum Linton, 1910. <em>Systematic Parasitology.</em> 15: 159-202. [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (Holotype USNM 1366344)