Schistosomatoidea
Appearance
Schistosomatoidea | |
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Egg of Schistosoma mansoni | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
Class: | Trematoda |
Order: | Diplostomida |
Suborder: | Diplostomata |
Superfamily: | Schistosomatoidea Stiles & Hassall, 1898 |
The Schistosomatoidea are a superfamily of digenetic trematodes.[1]
Families
[edit]- Aporocotylidae Odhner, 1912
- Schistosomatidae Stiles & Hassall, 1898
- Spirorchiidae Stunkard, 1921
References
[edit]- ^ Snyder, S. D. (2004). Phylogeny and paraphyly among tetrapod blood flukes (Digenea: Schistosomatidae and Spirorchiidae). International Journal for Parasitology 34(12), 1385-92.