Transversotrematidae

Transversotrematidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Suborder: Transversotremata
Olson, Cribb, Tkach, Bray & Littlewood, 2003
Superfamily: Transversotrematoidea
Witenberg, 1944
Family: Transversotrematidae
Witenberg, 1944[1]

Transversotrematidae is a family of trematodes in the order Plagiorchiida. It is the only family in the superfamily Transversotrematoidea, which is the only superfmaily in the suborder Transversotremata. It has been synonymised with Circuitiocoeliidae Wang, 1981,[2] Squamacolidae Pan & Wang, 1985,[3] and Transversotrematinae Witenberg, 1944.[1]

  1. ^ a b Witenberg, G. (1944). Transversotrema haasi, a new fish trematode. Journal of Parasitology, 30, 179–180.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference II was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Pan, Jin-Pei & Wang, Wei-Jun (1985). An ectoparasitic, digenetic trematode Squamacola parvivitellaria gen. et sp. nov. (Squamacolidae fam. nov.), found from freshwater fishes of China. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 10(4), 344–349.