Aspidogastridae

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Aspidogastridae
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Platyhelminthes
Class:
Trematoda
Order:
Aspidogastrida
Superfamily:
Aspidogastrioidea
Family:
Aspidogastridae

Poche, 1907 [1]

Aspidogastridae is a family of trematodes in the order Aspidogastrida.

Genera

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References

  1. 1 2 Poche, F. (1907). Einige Bemerkungen zur Nomenklatur der Trematoden. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 31, 124-126.
  2. ↑ Baer, K. E. (1827). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der niedern Thiere. Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum, 13, 523–762.
  3. ↑ Eckmann, F. (1932). Über zwei neue Trematoden der Gattung Aspidogaster. Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde, 4, 395–399.
  4. ↑ Looss, A. (1902). Über neue und bekannte Trematoden aus Seeschildkröten. Nebst Eröterung zur Systematik und Nomenclatur. Zoologischer Jahrbücher, Abreilung zür Systematik, Geographie, und Biologie der Tiere, 16, 411–894.
  5. ↑ Dawes, B. (1941). On Multicotyle purvisi, n. g. n. sp., an aspidogastrid trematode from the river turtle, Siebenrockiella crassicollis, in Malaya. Parasitology, 33, 300–305.
  6. ↑ Snyder, S. D. & Tkach, V. V. (2007). Neosychnocotyle maggie, n. gen., n. sp. (Platyhelminthes: Aspidogastrea) from freshwater turtles in northern Australia. The Journal of Parasitology, 41, 587–594.
  7. ↑ Ferguson, M. A., Cribb, T. H. & Smales, L. R. (1999). Life-cycle and biology of Sychnocotyle kholo n. g., n. sp. (Trematoda: Aspidogastrea) in Emydura macquarii (Pleurodira: Chelidae) from southern Queensland, Australia. Systematic Parasitology, 43, 41–48.
  8. ↑ Chauhan, B. S. (1954). Studies on the trematode fauna of India. Part II. Subclass Aspidogastrea. Records of the Indian Museum, 51, 209–230.
  9. ↑ Leidy, J. (1857). Observations on Entozoa found in Naiades. Proceeding of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 9, 18.
  10. ↑ Monticelli, F. S. (1892). Cotylogaster michaelis n. g., n. sp. e revisione degli Aspidobothridae. In Taschenberg, E. O. W. (Ed.), Festshrift zum Siebenzigsten Geburtstage Rudolf Leuckarts (pp. 168–214). Leipzig: Wilhelm Englemann.<fix>
  11. ↑ Sinha, C. B. (1935). Morphology of a new genus of trematode, family Aspidogastridae Poche, 1907, from the intestine of a tortoise, Lissemys punctata, together with a key for the identification of the known genera. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, 1(11), 677–685.
  12. 1 2 Gibson, D. & Chinabut, S. (1984). Rohdella siamensis gen. et sp. nov. (Aspidogastridae: Rohdellinae subfam. nov.) from fresh water fishes in Thailand, with a reorganization of the classification of the subclass Aspidogastrea. Parasitology, 88(3), 383–393.
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