Galactosomum erinaceum Bittner & Sprehn 1928 ...

• Main Authors: Karar, Yasser F. M., Blend, Charles K., Dronen, Norman O., Adel, Asmaa
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Platyhelminthes; Trematoda; Plagiorchiida; Heterophyidae; Galactosomum; Galactosomum erinaceum; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7937287; https://zenodo.org/record/7937287

Galactosomum erinaceum (Poirier, 1886) Bittner & Sprehn, 1928 (Fig. 9) (Syns. Distomum erinaceum Poirier, 1886; Distoma erinaceum Poirier, 1886; Distoma [ Dicrocoelium ] erinaceum [Poirier, 1886] Stossich, 1892; Astiotrema erinacea [Poirier, 1886] Stossich, 1904 [Malformed suffix]; Astiotrema erinaceum [Poirier, 1886] Stossich, 1904) Record. 1. Poirier (1886). Remarks. Poirier (1886) described D . erinaceum to accommodate some immature specimens liberated from cysts and collected from the intestine of the short-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus delphis Linnaeus (Artiodactyla: Delphinidae), in European waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. Stossich (1892) moved D . erinaceum into the subgenus Dicrocoelium Dujardin, 1845 within Distoma Retzius, 1786. Looss (1899) noted that the immature specimens of D . erinaceum highly corresponded to the two known members of Astia Looss, 1899 nec Koch, 1879 (= Astiotrema ) (i.e., the type-species A . reniferum and A . impletum ) in all recognizable structural details, but ... : Published as part of Karar, Yasser F. M., Blend, Charles K., Dronen, Norman O. & Adel, Asmaa, 2023, Towards resolving the problematic status of the digenean genus Astiotrema Looss 1900: Taxa excluded from Astiotrema (sensu stricto) with special reference to plagiorchioid genera closely related to the restricted concept of Astiotrema, pp. 445-495 in Zootaxa 5284 (3) on page 455, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5284.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7929507 ...