Echinostomatidae

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Echinostomatidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Suborder: Echinostomata
Superfamily: Echinostomatoidea
Family: Echinostomatidae
Looss, 1899[1]
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Cathaemasiidae Fuhrmann, 1928

Echinostomatidae is a family of trematodes in the order Plagiorchiida, first described in 1899.[4]

Subdivisions

Drawings of cercariae of various Echinostomatidae

The World Register of Marine Species currently shows a total of 33 genera accepted within Echinostomatidae, subdivided across eight subfamilies, with five genera unplaced.[5]

References

  1. ^ Looss, A. (1899). Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Trematoden-Fauna Aegyptens, zugleich Versuch einer natürlichen Gliederung des Genus Distomum Retzius. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere, 12, 521–784.
  2. ^ Dietz, E. (1909). Die Echinostomiden der Vögel. Zoologische Jahrbücker, 12, 265–512.
  3. ^ Tkach, Vasyl V.; Kudlai, Olena; Kostadinova, Aneta (2016-03-01). "Molecular phylogeny and systematics of the Echinostomatoidea Looss, 1899 (Platyhelminthes: Digenea)". International Journal for Parasitology. 46 (3): 171–185. doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2015.11.001. ISSN 0020-7519. PMID 26699402.
  4. ^ Fuhrmann, O. (1928). Zweite Klasse des Cladus Platyhelminthes: Trematoda. Berlin & Leipzig: Kükenthal's Handbuch der Zoologie.
  5. ^ "Echinostomatidae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 20 June 2022.