Aspidogastridae is a

family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...

trematodes Trematoda is a class of flatworms known as trematodes, and commonly as flukes. They are obligate internal parasites with a complex life cycle requiring at least two hosts. The intermediate host, in which asexual reproduction occurs, is a moll ...

in the

order Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * A socio-political or established or existing order, e.g. World order, Ancien Regime, Pax Britannica * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood ...

Aspidogastrida Aspidogastrida is an order of trematodes in the subclass Aspidogastrea The Aspidogastrea (Ancient Greek: ' “shield”, ' “stomach/pouch”) is a small group of flukes comprising about 80 species. It is a subclass of the trematoda, and ...

Genera

*Subfamily Aspidogastrinae Poche, 1907 **'' Aspidogaster'' Baer, 1827Baer, K. E. (1827). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der niedern Thiere. ''Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum'', 13, 523–762. **'' Lobatostoma'' Eckmann, 1932Eckmann, F. (1932). Über zwei neue Trematoden der Gattung ''Aspidogaster''. ''Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde'', 4, 395–399. **'' Lophotapsis'' Looss, 1902Looss, 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. **'' Multicotyle'' Dawes, 1941Dawes, B. (1941). On ''Multicotyle purvisi'', n. g. n. sp., an aspidogastrid trematode from the river turtle, ''Siebenrockiella crassicollis'', in Malaya. ''Parasitology'', 33, 300–305. **'' Neosychnocotyle'' Snyder & Tkach, 2007Snyder, 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. **'' Sychnocotyle'' Ferguson, Cribb & Smales, 1999Ferguson, 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. *Subfamily Cotylaspidinae Chauhan, 1954Chauhan, B. S. (1954). Studies on the trematode fauna of India. Part II. Subclass Aspidogastrea. ''Records of the Indian Museum'', 51, 209–230. **'' Cotylapsis'' Leidy, 1857Leidy, J. (1857). Observations on Entozoa found in Naiades. ''Proceeding of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia'', 9, 18. **'' Cotylogaster'' Monticelli, 1892Monticelli, 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. **'' Lissemysia'' Sinha, 1935Sinha, 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. *Subfamily Rohdellinae Gibson & Chinabut, 1984Gibson, 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. **'' Rohdella'' Gibson & Chinabut, 1984

References

Aspidogastrea Trematode families Taxa named by Franz Poche {{trematoda-stub