Trematodes belonging to the species
Lepocreadium album (Stossich, 1890) and
L. pegorchis (Stossich, 1900) were found in
Spondyliosoma cantharus and
Spicara smaris (their type-hosts, respectively) and other fishes in Lebanese waters. Morphometric variations in body-size, size and form of the pharynx, egg-size in relation to body-size, etc, according to host-species, are reported and commented upon.
L. album obladae n. subsp. is erected for specimens from
Oblada melanura.