Category: Platyhelminthes

Belongs within: Cestoda.Contains: Proteocephalidae, Monticelliidae, Hymenolepidata, Taeniata, Anoplocephalidae. The Eucestoda, true tapeworms, are parasitic flatworms found as adults in the digestive tract of vertebrates. The body is divided into scolex, neck and strobila with the strobila composed of numerous segments (proglottids); male and female reproductive systems are present in each proglottid (Miller & Harley 1996).… Continue reading Eucestoda

Belongs within: Neodermata.Contains: Aspidogastrida, Acanthostomatidae, Cyathocotylidae, Cercaria, Diplostomida, Plagiorchiida. The Trematoda, flukes, are endoparasitic worms exhibiting complex life cycles involving two or more hosts, typically with larval development in aquatic invertebrates and reaching maturity in vertebrates. <==Trematoda | i. s.: Brahamputrotrema punctata Gupta 1955S69 | Mosesia chordeilesiaL68 | Otiotrema torosumO05 | SagittulaR26 | |–S. hominisR26 | `–S. longirostrum… Continue reading Trematoda

Belongs within: Neoophora.Contains: Trematoda, Cestoda, Polyopisthocotylea, Monopisthocotylea. The Neodermata are a clade of parasitic flatworms including flukes and tapeworms, characterised by replacement of the epidermis with a distinct syncytial tegument. Neodermata [Cercomeromorpha] | i. s.: Lampritrema miescheriK-M02a | Pseudocreadium biminensisK-M02d | Diceras rude [=Ditrachyceras rudis]G20 |–+–TrematodaLOL03 | `–CestodaLOL03 `–Monogenea [Heterocotylea]LOL03 | i. s.: GyrodactyloidesK-M02b | |–G. crenatusK-M02b… Continue reading Neodermata

Belongs within: Trematoda. The Cyathocotylidae are flukes parasitic in the intestines of amniotes (Dawes 1956). Characters (Dawes 1956): Distomes of rounded outline with body is not divided into anterior and posterior regions. Cirrus pouch very large, cirrus large, pars prostatica and seminal vesicle present. Gonads rounded, prominent, ovary between testes. Vitellaria very well developed, laterally along whole… Continue reading Cyathocotylidae

Belongs within: Trematoda. The Aspidogastrida are flukes, parasitic on marine and freshwater vertebrates, in which almost the entire ventral surface is occupied by a large adhesive apparatus (Dawes 1956). Characters (Dawes 1956): Adhesive apparatus occupying almost entire ventral surface of body, consisting of numerous suckerlets or alveoli arranged in one, three or four rows. Anterior organ of… Continue reading Aspidogastrida

Belongs within: Trematoda.Contains: Diplostomoidea, Schistosomatidae. The Diplostomida are a clade of flukes identified by molecular data, in which the adult genital pore (if present) is posterior to the ventral sucker (Olson et al. 2003). <==Diplostomida |–Brachylaimoidea [Brachylaeminae, Brachylaimidae, Harmostomidae, Harmostominae, Heterolopinae]OC03 | | i. s.: Itygonimus Lühe 1899D56 | | |–I. lorum (Dujardin 1845) (see below for synonymy)D56 |… Continue reading Diplostomida

Belongs within: Trematoda. Cercaria is a form genus used for the free-swimming larval stages of digenean flukes, particularly those for which the mature stage has not yet been identified. <==Cercaria Michaelis 1830FT93 |–C. abbrevistyla Cable 1939D56 |–C. anchoroides Ward 1916D56 |–C. appendiculata Pelseneer 1906D56 |–C. biflagellata Faust 1926D56 |–C. bombayensis Soparkar 1921D56 |–C. brachyura Lespés 1857 [=C.… Continue reading Cercaria

Belongs within: Diplostomida.Contains: Schistosomatinae. The Schistosomatidae, blood flukes, are elongate, unisexual flukes inhabiting the blood capillaries of tetrapods (Dawes 1956). Characters (Dawes 1956): Greatly elongate, unisexual, dimorphic Digenea parasitic in blood-vascular system of vertebrates. Female longer and more slender than male, sometimes carried in ventral groove (gynaecophoric canal) formed by ventrally flexed lateral outgrowths of the body. Suckers… Continue reading Schistosomatidae

Belongs within: Diplostomida. The Diplostomoidea are a group of flukes characterised by the presence of a holdfast organ posterior to the ventral sucker. <==Diplostomoidea [Diplostomatidae, Diplostomidae, Strigeidae, Strigeinae] |–Apharyngostrigea Ciurea 1927OC03, D56 | |–A. cornu (Goeze 1800) [=Distoma cornu, Amphistoma cornu, Holostomum cornu, Monostoma cornu]D56 | `–A. pipientisD56 `–+–+–+–Cardiocephaloides longicollisOC03 | | `–Ichthyocotylurus erraticusOC03 | `–AlariinaeD56… Continue reading Diplostomoidea

Belongs within: Trematoda.Contains: Hemiuroidea, Bucephalata, Pronocephalata, Echinostomatoidea, Opisthorchioidea, Lepocreadioidea, Xiphidiata. The Plagiorchiida are a clade of flukes united by molecular data, members of which typically have the genital pore in the fore body (Olson et al. 2003). <==Plagiorchiida [Cyclocoeloidea, Echinostomida] |–Bivesiculidae [Bivesiculata, Bivesiculoidea]OC03 | |–Treptodemus [Treptodemidae]MK00 | | `–T. latus Manter 1961MK00 | |–BivesiculaOC03 | | |–B. unexpectaOC03 |… Continue reading Plagiorchiida