Heterophyes

Heterophyes
Adult specimen of Heterophyes heterophyes stained with carmine
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Heterophyidae
Genus: Heterophyes
Cobbold, 1866[1]

Heterophyes is a genus of trematodes, or fluke worms, in the family Heterophyidae.[2]

  1. ^ Cobbold T. S. (1866). Tapeworms, page 6.
  2. ^ Bogitsh, Burton Jerome; Carter, Clint Earl; Oeltmann, Thomas N. (2013). Human Parasitology. Academic Press. ISBN 9780124159150.