WoRMS taxon details
Brachycladium goliath (van Beneden, 1858) Fraija-Fernández, Aznar, Raga, Gibson & Fernández, 2014
753852 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:753852)
accepted
Species
Brachycladium spinosum (Margolis & Pike, 1955) Dailey, 2007 · unaccepted (synonym)
Distoma goliath van Beneden, 1858 · unaccepted (Superseded combination)
Lecithodesmus goliath (van Beneden, 1858) Odhner, 1905 · unaccepted (Superseded combination)
Lecithodesmus spinosus Margolis & Pike, 1955 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine
(of Distoma goliath van Beneden, 1858) Beneden, P.J. van. (1858). Note sur une nouvelle espèce de distome, le géant de sa famille, habitant le foie d'une baleine, nommèe Distoma goliath, v. Ben. <em>Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique.</em> Ser. 2, 5:95-97.
page(s): 95 [details]
page(s): 95 [details]
WoRMS (2025). Brachycladium goliath (van Beneden, 1858) Fraija-Fernández, Aznar, Raga, Gibson & Fernández, 2014. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=753852 on 2025-05-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Lecithodesmus spinosus Margolis & Pike, 1955) Margolis, L.; Pike, G. C. (1955). Some Helminth Parasites of Canadian Pacific Whales. <em>Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada.</em> 12(1): 97-120., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/f55-008
page(s): 99 [details]
original description (of Distoma goliath van Beneden, 1858) Beneden, P.J. van. (1858). Note sur une nouvelle espèce de distome, le géant de sa famille, habitant le foie d'une baleine, nommèe Distoma goliath, v. Ben. <em>Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique.</em> Ser. 2, 5:95-97.
page(s): 95 [details]
new combination reference Fraija-Fernández, N.; Aznar, F. J.; Raga, J. A.; Gibson, D.; Fernández, M. (2014). A new brachycladiid species (Digenea) from Gervais' beaked whale Mesoplodon europaeus in north-western Atlantic waters. <i>Acta Parasitologica</i>. 59(3): 510-517., available online at https://doi.org/10.2478/s11686-014-0274-7
page(s): 513 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 99 [details]
original description (of Distoma goliath van Beneden, 1858) Beneden, P.J. van. (1858). Note sur une nouvelle espèce de distome, le géant de sa famille, habitant le foie d'une baleine, nommèe Distoma goliath, v. Ben. <em>Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique.</em> Ser. 2, 5:95-97.
page(s): 95 [details]
new combination reference Fraija-Fernández, N.; Aznar, F. J.; Raga, J. A.; Gibson, D.; Fernández, M. (2014). A new brachycladiid species (Digenea) from Gervais' beaked whale Mesoplodon europaeus in north-western Atlantic waters. <i>Acta Parasitologica</i>. 59(3): 510-517., available online at https://doi.org/10.2478/s11686-014-0274-7
page(s): 513 [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Briscoe, A. G.; Bray, R. A.; Brabec, J.; Littlewood, D. (2016). The mitochondrial genome and ribosomal operon of Brachycladium goliath (Digenea: Brachycladiidae) recovered from a stranded minke whale. <em>Parasitology International.</em> 65(3): 271-275., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parint.2016.02.004
page(s): 271 [details]
additional source de Amorim, D. B.; Piva, M. M.; Ribeiro, P. R.; et al. (2024). Pathological, morphological, and molecular characterization of the infection by Brachycladium goliath in humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae. <em>Parasitology Research.</em> 123, 200., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-024-08213-1 [details]
page(s): 271 [details]
additional source de Amorim, D. B.; Piva, M. M.; Ribeiro, P. R.; et al. (2024). Pathological, morphological, and molecular characterization of the infection by Brachycladium goliath in humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae. <em>Parasitology Research.</em> 123, 200., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-024-08213-1 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Lecithodesmus spinosus Margolis & Pike, 1955)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Lecithodesmus goliath (van Beneden, 1858) Odhner, 1905)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Brachycladium goliath)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 24 proteins)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 24 proteins) (from synonym Lecithodesmus goliath (van Beneden, 1858) Odhner, 1905)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Lecithodesmus goliath (van Beneden, 1858) Odhner, 1905)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Lecithodesmus goliath (van Beneden, 1858) Odhner, 1905)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (2 records) (from synonym Brachycladium spinosum (Margolis & Pike, 1955) Dailey, 2007)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Lecithodesmus spinosus Margolis & Pike, 1955)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Lecithodesmus goliath (van Beneden, 1858) Odhner, 1905)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Brachycladium goliath)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 24 proteins)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 24 proteins) (from synonym Lecithodesmus goliath (van Beneden, 1858) Odhner, 1905)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Lecithodesmus goliath (van Beneden, 1858) Odhner, 1905)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Lecithodesmus goliath (van Beneden, 1858) Odhner, 1905)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Platyhelminthes Collection (2 records) (from synonym Brachycladium spinosum (Margolis & Pike, 1955) Dailey, 2007)
