Batrachotrematidae is a

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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

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Plagiorchiida Plagiorchiida is a large order of trematodes, synonymous to Echinostomida. They belong to the Digenea, a large subclass of flukes. This order contains relatively few significant parasites of humans. The following families are placed here, ...

Genera

The following genera are described severally, and by Rizvi, ''et al.'' (2012):Rizvi, A. N., Bursey, C. R. & Bhutia, P. T. (2012). Three new species of Digenea (Batrachotrematidae) in ''Nanorana minica'' (Anura, Dicroglossidae) from Uttarakhand, India. ''Acta Parasitologica'', 57(2), 154–159. *''

Batrachotrema ''Batrachotrema'' is a genus of trematodes in the family Batrachotrematidae. It is the type-genus of the family, and its type-species is ''B. petropedatis''. The type-species is the only species of the family found in Africa, (as opposed to so ...

'' Dollfus & Williams, 1966 *'' Opisthioparorchis'' Wang, 1980Wang, P. (1980). Report on some trematodes from amphibians and reptiles in Fujian, South China. ''Fujian Shida Xueba'', 2, 81–92. The following additional genera are described by Cribb (2005),Cribb, T. H. (2005). Family Batrachotrematidae Dollfus and Williams, 1966. In Bray, R., Gibson, D. & Jones, A. (Eds.), ''Keys to the Trematoda''. Vol. 2 (pp. 437–442). London, UK: CABI Publishing and The Natural History Museum. but are not discussed in Rizvi, ''et al.'' (2012) or other studies: *'' Gigantodiscum'' Wang, 1980 *'' Rhacophotrema'' Uchida, Itagaki & Inoue, 1980Uchida, A., Itagaki, H. & Inoue, H. (1980). Studies on the amphibian helminths in Japan, 7. ''Rhacophotrema itagakii'' n. g. et n. sp. and ''Opisthioglyphe japonicus'' n. sp. (Digenea: Omphalometridae) from frogs. ''Japanese Journal of Parasitology'', 29(2), 109–113. Cribb (2005) noted that most species of Batrachotrematidae are poorly described, and many seem to be different from the type-species of the genera to which they belong. A lack of molecular studies prevent adequate classification of the species; Cribb (2005) describes the split between African and Asian species, which parasitise different types of frogs, as possibly warranting a separate distinction at the family level. The lack of clarity regarding the definition of the family, and the lack of molecular and life-cycle studies on the putative species, makes Batrachotrematidae one of the worst-defined

digenean Digenea (Gr. ''Dis'' – double, ''Genos'' – race) is a class of trematodes in the Platyhelminthes phylum, consisting of parasitic flatworms (known as ''flukes'') with a syncytial tegument and, usually, two suckers, one ventral and one ...

families.

References

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