Transversotrematidae is a
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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...
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, ...
. It is the only family in the
superfamily
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Transversotrematoidea, which is the only superfmaily in the
suborder
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Transversotremata. It has been
synonymised with Circuitiocoeliidae Wang, 1981,
Squamacolidae Pan & Wang, 1985,
[Pan, Jin-Pei & Wang, Wei-Jun (1985). An ectoparasitic, digenetic trematode ''Squamacola parvivitellaria'' gen. et sp. nov. (Squamacolidae fam. nov.), found from freshwater fishes of China. ''Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica'', 10(4), 344–349.] and Transversotrematinae Witenberg, 1944.
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Genera
* '' Circuitiocoelium'' Wang, 1981[Wang, P. (1981). Notes on one new family and three new species of trematodes from Vertebrata in Wuyi, Fujian Province. ''Wuyi Science Journal'', 1, 90–94.]
* '' Crusziella'' Cribb, Bray & Barker, 1992[Cribb, T. H., Bray, R. A. & Barker, S. C. (1992). A review of the family Transversotrematidae (Trematoda: Digenea) with the description of a new genus, ''Crusziella''. ''Invertebrate Taxonomy'', 6(4), 909–935.]
* '' Prototransversotrema'' Angel, 1969[Angel, L. M. (1969). ''Prototransversotrema steeri'' gen. nov., sp. nov. (Digenea: Transversotrematidae) from a South Australian fish. ''Parasitology'', 59(3), 719–724.]
* '' Transversotrema'' Witenberg, 1944[
]
References
Plagiorchiida
Trematode families
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