Echinostomatidae

Echinostomatidae is a family of trematodes in the order Plagiorchiida. It has been synonymised with Cathaemasiidae Fuhrmann, 1928.[2]

Echinostomatidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Rhabditophora
Order: Plagiorchiida
Suborder: Echinostomata
Superfamily: Echinostomatoidea
Family: Echinostomatidae
Looss, 1899[1]

Genera

Other studies

Chai et al. (2009)[5] listed additional genera in Echinostomatidae. They are:

  • Artyfechinostomum Lane, 1915[6]
  • Episthmium Lühe, 1909[7]
  • Euparyphium Dietz, 1909[3]

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. Fuhrmann, O. (1928). Zweite Klasse des Cladus Platyhelminthes: Trematoda. Berlin & Leipzig: Kükenthal's Handbuch der Zoologie.
  3. Dietz, E. (1909). Die Echinostomiden der Vögel. Zoologische Jahrbücker, 12, 265–512.
  4. Rudolphi C. A. (1809) Entozoorum sive vermium intestinalium, historia naturalis. Amstelaedami.
  5. Chai, J., Shin, E., Lee, S. & Rim, H. (2009). Foodborne Intestinal Flukes in Southeast Asia. The Korean Journal of Parasitology, 47(Supplementary), 69–102.
  6. Lane C. 1915. Artyfechinostomum sufrartyfex. A new parasite echinostome of man. Indian Journal of Medical Research, 2, 977–983.
  7. Lühe, M. (1909). Parasitische Plattwürmer. I. Trematodes. In: Brauer, A. (Ed.), Die Süsswasserfauna Deutschlands. Wine Exkursionfauna. Jena: Gustav Fischer, 17.


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