Prosthogonimidae

Prosthogonimidae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Trematoda
Order:	Plagiorchiida
Suborder:	Xiphidiata
Superfamily:	Microphalloidea
Family:	Prosthogonimidae Lühe, 1909
Genera
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The Prosthogonimidae are a family of trematodes. They are part of the huge of the suborder Xiphidiata in the order Plagiorchiida. The adults of these parasites occur in the bursa of Fabricius, caecum, cloaca, liver, oviduct and sometimes even under the nictitating membrane of vertebrates and particularly birds.

Selected genera are:

• Cephalotrema
• Mediogonimus Woodhead & Malewitz, 1936
• Ophthalmogonimus
• Prosthogonimus Lühe, 1899
• previously recognized genus Schistogonimus Lühe, 1909 is newly considered a junior synonym of Prosthogonimus Lühe, 1899^[1]

References

1. Heneberg, P.; Sitko, J.; Bizos, J. (2015). "Integrative taxonomy of central European parasitic flatworms of the family Prosthogonimidae Lühe, 1909 (Trematoda: Plagiorchiida)". Parasitology International. 64 (5): 264–273. doi:10.1016/j.parint.2015.02.003. PMID 25724855.