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

Philophthalmidae Looss, 1899

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Cloacitrema Yamaguti, 1935
Echinostephillinae Yamaguti, 1958
Ophthalmotrema Sobolev, 1943
Parorchis Nicoll, 1907
Philophthalminae Looss, 1899
Pygorchis Looss, 1899

Literature

original description	Looss, A. (1899). Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Trematoden-Fauna Aegyptens, zugleich Versuch einer natürlichen Gliederung des Genus Distomum Retzius. Zoologische Jahrbücher. 12: 521-784.
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
identification resource	Skrjabin, K. I. (1947). Family Philophthalmidae Travassos, 1918. Osnovy Trematodologii. 1:182–213. (In Russian, English translation, 1979, by Amerind Publishing Co.).
identification resource	Kanev, I.; Radev, V.; Fried, B. (2005). Family Philophthalmidae Looss, 1899. In. Jones, A.; Bray, R. A.; Gibson, D. I. (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda. Vol. 2. CABI Publishing and the Natural History Museum, Wallingford. pp. 87–97.
biology source	Yamaguti S. (1975). A synoptical review of life histories of digenetic trematodes of vertebrates with special reference to the morphology of their larval forms. Tokyo, Keigaku Publishing Co. pp. LXI I + 590 + 219 plates.