Xiphidiata 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
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, ...
, an
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
...
of
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 ...
flatworms
Platyhelminthes (from the Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") is a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates commonly called ...
(
flukes).
The following
superfamilies are in the suborder Xiphidiata:
*
Brachycladioidea Odhner, 1905
*
Gorgoderoidea
Xiphidiata is a suborder of Plagiorchiida, an order (biology), order of parasitic flatworms (Trematoda, flukes).
The following superfamily (biology), superfamilies are in the suborder Xiphidiata:
* Brachycladioidea Odhner, 1905
* Gorgoderoidea ...
Looss, 1901
*
Microphalloidea
Xiphidiata is a suborder of Plagiorchiida, an order (biology), order of parasitic flatworms (Trematoda, flukes).
The following superfamily (biology), superfamilies are in the suborder Xiphidiata:
* Brachycladioidea Odhner, 1905
* Gorgoderoidea ...
Ward, 1901
*
Opecoeloidea Ozaki, 1925
*
Plagiorchioidea Lühe, 1901
*
Troglotrematoidea Odhner, 1914
The genus ''
Zdzitowieckitrema'', with the single species ''
Zdzitowieckitrema incognitum'', described by Sokolov, Lebedeva, Gordeev, & Khasanov in 2017,
is yet unplaced within the suborder Xiphidiata.
References
Protostome suborders
Plagiorchiida
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