Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Echinostomata > Superfamily Echinostomatoidea

Fasciolidae Railliet, 1895

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Fasciolinae Railliet, 1895
Fascioloides Ward, 1917
Fasciolopsis Looss, 1899
Parafasciolopsis Ejsmont, 1932

Literature

original description	Railliet, A. (1895). Sur une forme particulière de douve hépatique provenant du Sénégal. Compt. Rend. Soc. Biol, Paris. 47, 10., a, 2 (15): 338–340.
basis of record	Gibson, D.I. (2001). Digenea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 136-142
additional source	Choudhary, K.; Verma, A. K.; Swaroop, S.; Agrawal, N. (2015). A review on the molecular characterization of digenean parasites using molecular markers with special reference to ITS region. Helminthologia. 52(3): 167-187.
identification resource	Jones, A. (2005). Family Fasciolidae Railliet, 1895. In: Jones, A., Bray, R.A. & Gibson, D.I. [Eds]. Keys to the Trematoda. Vol. 2. Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 79–86.
identification resource	Skrjabin, K. I. (1948). Superfamily Fascioloidea Stiles et Goldberger 1910. Osnovy Trematodologii. 2: 7–336. (In Russian).