Abstract
Bray (1983, Journal of Natural History 17:321339) recently reviewed the taxonomy of the fellodistomatid trematode Proctoeces maculatus (Looss). He listed 21 synonyms and indicated that the species had a world-wide distribution and employed a variety of hosts and life cycle patterns. In coastal waters of the northeastern United States, as well as the Thames estuary in England, P. maculatus displays a progenetic life cycle by reproducing sexually in the kidneys and pericardia of the mussels Scrobicularia plana (Da Costa) and Mytilus edulis Linnaeus (Freeman and Llewellyn, 1958, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 37: 435457; Stunkard and Uzmann, 1959, Biological Bulletin (Woods Hole) 116: 184-193). In estuaries of the northern Gulf of Mexico P. maculatus uses hooked mussels, Ischadium recurvum (Rafinesque), as both first and second interme-
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