Echinostomata is a

suborder Order () 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 recognized ...

of the

parasitic Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives (at least some of the time) on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The ent ...

flatworm Platyhelminthes (from the Greek language, Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") is a Phylum (biology), phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, Segmentation (biology), ...

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 ...

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, ...

. 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. Genera: * ''Calycodes'' Looss, 1901 References

Plagiorchiida Trematode families {{trematoda-stub ...

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. Genera The genera are ordered by subfamily. *Cyclocoelinae Stossich, 1902 **'' Circumvitellatrema'' Dronen, Greiner, Ialeggio & Nolan, 2009Dronen, N. O., Greiner, E. C., Ialeggi ...

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 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. Ideal ...

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 The ...

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 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 ...

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

Fasciolidae Fasciolidae is a family of trematodes and includes several parasites involved in the veterinary and medical sciences, which cause the disease Fasciolosis. Fasciolidae is divided into five genera by Olson et al. 2003. The family's various species ...

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 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, ...

Odhner, 1910 *

Philophthalmidae Philophthalmidae 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. Ideal ...

Looss, 1899 *

Psilostomidae Psilostomidae is a family of trematode Trematoda is a Class (biology), class of flatworms known as trematodes, and commonly as flukes. They are obligate parasite, obligate Endoparasites, internal parasites with a complex biological life cycle ...

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 trematode Trematoda is a Class (biology), class of flatworms known as trematodes, and commonly as flukes. They are obligate parasite, obligate Endoparasites, internal parasites with a complex biological life cycle, ...

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 trematode Trematoda is a Class (biology), class of flatworms known as trematodes, and commonly as flukes. They are obligate parasite, obligate Endoparasites, internal parasites with a complex biological life cycl ...

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

References

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