Brauninidae is a
monotypic
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...
family
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of
trematodes in the
order
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* 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
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Diplostomida
Diplostomida is an order of trematodes in the subclass Digenea. It is synonymous with Strigeatida Poche, 1926.
Families
Order Diplostomida
*Suborder Diplostomata
**Superfamily Brachylaimoidea Joyeux & Foley, 1930
***Brachylaimidae Joyeux & Foley ...
. It consists of one
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
, ''Braunina'' Heider, 1900,
[Heider, K. (1900). Über ''Braunina'', ein neues Genus aus der Gruppe der Hemistomidae. ''Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, Leipzig'', 19–22.] which consists of one
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
, ''Braunina cordiformis'' Wolf, 1903.
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Hosts
''Braunina cordiformis'' has been observed to infect certain species of porpoise
Porpoises () are small Oceanic dolphin, dolphin-like cetaceans classified under the family Phocoenidae. Although similar in appearance to dolphins, they are more closely related to narwhals and Beluga whale, belugas than to the Oceanic dolphi ...
such as the common bottlenose dolphin (''Tursiops truncatus''), the common dolphin (''Delphinus delphis''), and the Indo-Pacific finless porpoise (''Neophocaena phocaenoides''). ''Braunina'' attaches to the membrane wall of its host's stomach and damages the wall's tissue, which can cause chronic gastritis in the host.
References
Diplostomida
Trematode families
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