Proterodiplostomidae is a
monotypic
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family
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of
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
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* A socio-political or established or existing order, e.g. World order, Ancien Regime, Pax Britannica
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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
subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end botanical subfamily names with "-oideae", and zo ...
, Polycotylinae Monticelli, 1888,
[Monticelli, F. S. (1888). ''Saggio di una morfologia del trematodi. Tesi per ottenere la privata docenza in ''Zoologia nella'' R.'' Naples: Università di Napoli: Stabilimento Tipografico Fili, Ferrante.] which consists of one
genus
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, ''Cheloniodiplostomum'' Sudarikov, 1960,
[Sudarikov, V. E. (1960). Strigeidida: Diplostomatidae. In Skryabin, K. I. (Ed.), ''Trematodes of animals and man. Principles of trematodology''. Moscow: Nauka.] which consists of four species: ''
Cheloniodiplostomum argentinense'' Palumbo & Diaz, 2018;
[Palumbo, E. & Diaz, J. (2018). New species and new record of the genus ''Cheloniodiplostomum'' (Trematoda: Proterodiplostomidae: Polycotylinae), parasites of freshwater turtles from Argentina. ''Parasitology Research'', 1–7.] ''
Cheloniodiplostomum breve'' (MacCallum, 1921);
[MacCallum, G. (1926). Revue du genre ''Spirorchis'' MacCallum. ''Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée'', 4(1), 97–103.] ''
Cheloniodiplostomum delillei'' (Zerecero, 1947);
[Zerecero, M. C. (1947). Posición sistemática de ''Diplostomum brevis'' y ''D. cinosterni'' MacCallum, 1921, y descripción de un nuevo trematodo parásito de ''Chelydra serpentina'' (L. 1758). ''Anales del Instituto de Biologia Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico'', 18, 507–516.] and ''
Cheloniodiplostomum testudinis'' (Dubois, 1936).
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References
Diplostomida
Trematode families
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