Echinostomata is a

suborder Order ( la, ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and ...

of the

parasitic Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson ha ...

flatworm The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, or platyhelminths (from the Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegme ...

order Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood * Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of ...

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, or ...

. The suborder contains numerous species that are parasitic in humans.

Families

All families are in the superfamily Echinostomatoidea Looss, 1902.Looss, A. (1902). Die Distomen-Unterfamilie der Haploporinae. ''Archives de Parasitologie'', 6, 129–143. It has been synonymised with Cyclocoeloidea Stossich, 1902. *

Calycodidae Calycodidae is a family of trematodes belonging to the order 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 ...

Dollfus, 1929Dollfus, R. P. (1929). Sur les Tétrarhynques. I. Définition des genres. ''Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France'', 54, 308–342. *

Cyclocoelidae Cyclocoelidae is a family of trematodes in the order 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 signifi ...

Stossich, 1902Stossich, M. (1902). Monostomum mutabile Zeder e le sue forme affini. ''Bollettino della Societ’a Adriatica di Scienz Naturali in Trieste'', 21, 1–40. *

Echinochasmidae Echinochasmidae is a family of trematodes in the order Plagiorchiida. Genera *''Echinochasmus ''Echinochasmus'' is a genus of trematodes in the family Echinochasmidae. Species *''Echinochasmus cohensi'' Rao, 1951Rao, N. S. K. (1951). ''Ec ...

Odhner, 1910Odhner, T. (1910). Nordafrikanische Trematoden größtenteils vom weißen Nil. ''Results of the Swedish zoological expedition to Egypt and the White Nile, 1901'', 23A, 1–170. *

Echinostomatidae Echinostomatidae is a family of trematodes in the order Plagiorchiida, first described in 1899.Fuhrmann, O. (1928). ''Zweite Klasse des Cladus Platyhelminthes: Trematoda''. Berlin & Leipzig: Kükenthal's Handbuch der Zoologie. Subdivisions Th ...

Looss, 1899Looss, A. (1899). Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Trematoden-Fauna Aegyptens, zugleich Versuch einer natürlichen Gliederung des Genus ''Distomum'' Retzius. ''Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere'', 12, 521–784. *

Eucotylidae Eucotylidae is a family of trematodes belonging to the order Plagiorchiida. Genera: * '' Eucotyle'' Cohn, 1904 * '' Neoeucotyle'' Kanev, Radev & Fried, 2002 * '' Paratanaisia'' Teixeira de Freitas, 1959 * '' Tamerlania'' Skrjabin, 1924 * '' Tan ...

Cohn, 1904Cohn, L. (1904). Helminthologische Mitteilungen. 2. ''Archiv für Naturgeschichte'', 70, 229–252. *

Fasciolidae Fasciolidae is a Family (biology), family of Trematoda, trematodes and includes several parasites involved in the veterinary and medical sciences, which cause the disease Fasciolosis. Fasciolidae is divided into five genus, genera by Olson et al. ...

Railliet, 1895Railliet, A. (1895). Sur une forme particulière de douve hépatique provenant de Sénégal. ''Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de la Société de Biologie, Paris'', 47, 338–340. *

Himasthlidae Himasthlidae is a family of trematodes in the order Plagiorchiida. Genera *''Acanthoparyphium ''Acanthoparyphium'' is a genus of flatworms belonging to the family Himasthlidae. The species of this genus are found in Australia and Japan. Spe ...

Odhner, 1910 *

Philophthalmidae Philophthalmidae is a family of trematodes in the order 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 signi ...

Looss, 1899 *

Psilostomidae Psilostomidae is a family of trematodes belonging to the order 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 fe ...

Looss, 1900Looss, A. (1900). Nachträgliche Bemerkungen zu den Namen der von mir vorgeschlagenen Distomidengattungen. ''Zoologischer Anzeiger'', 23, 601–608. *

Rhytidodidae Rhytidodidae is a family of trematodes belonging to the order 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 ...

Odhner, 1926Odhner, N. H. (1926). Die Opisthobranchien. ''Further zoological results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901-1903, under the direction of Dr. Otto Nordenskjöld'', 2(1), 1–100. *

Typhlocoelidae Typhlocoelidae is a family of trematodes belonging to the order 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 f ...

Harrah, 1922Harrah, E. C. (1922). North American monostomes primarily from freshwater hosts. ''Illinois Biological Monographs'', 7, 162–165.

References

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