Gorgoderidae

Gorgoderidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Platyhelminthes
Class:
Trematoda
Order:
Plagiorchiida
Suborder:
Xiphidiata
Superfamily:
Gorgoderoidea
Family:
Gorgoderidae

Looss, 1899[1]

The Gorgoderidae are a family of Flatworms (Platyhelminthes). They belong to the ordo Plagiorchiida. The species are parasites of fish, amphibians and reptiles.[2] They have distome, which means they got two suckers, one at the mouth (oral) and one at the waist (ventral).[2]

Systematics

There are five genera:[3]

References

  1. ↑ Looss, 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.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Libbie Henrietta Hyman: The Invertebrates, Volume 2: Platyhelminthes and Rhynchocoela, the Acoleomate Bilateria.
  3. ↑ Animal Diversity Web

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