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

Cryptogonimidae Ward, 1917

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Acanthostomum Looss, 1899
Anisocladium Looss, 1902
Anisocoelium Lühe, 1900
Anoiktostoma Stossich, 1899
Aphalloides Dollfus, Chabaud & Golvan, 1957
Aphallus Poche, 1926
Metadena Linton, 1910
Proctocaecum Baugh, 1957
Siphoderina Manter, 1934
Timoniella Rebecq, 1960

Literature

original description

Ward, H. B. (1917). On the structure and classification of North American parasitic worms. Journal of Parasitology. 4 (1), 1-12.

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

Font, W. F. (1987). Partial life cycle and fish hosts of Bolbogonotylus corkumi gen. et sp. n. and Cryptogonimus chyli (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae) in Wisconsin. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington. 54 (2): 191-196.

additional source

Yamaguti, S. (1934). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 2. Trematodes of fishes. I. Japanese Journal of Zoology. 5: 249-541.

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

Morozov, F. N. (1952). Trematode superfamily Heterophyoidea Faust, 1929. Skriabin K. I. Trematody zhivonykh i chekoveka (= Osnovy Trematodologii) [Trematodes of animals and humans. Fundamentals of trematodology]. 6: 152–615. (In Russian).

identification resource

Miller, T. L.; Cribb, T. H. (2008). Family Cryptogonimidae Ward 1917. In: Bray, R. A., Gibson, D. I. & Jones, A. (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 3. Wallingford, CABI Publishing and the Natural History Museum. pp. 51–112.

Genbank

loading

Citation

WoRMS (2025). Cryptogonimidae Ward, 1917. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=108440

Dr. David Gibson. Cryptogonimidae Ward, 1917. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/60800f6e-4602-4e27-96fc-47128a0f9e3f

Image

loading

Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Importance

no data

Provided by

logo erms

GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:108440
urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:16277

Last modified

2017-09-25 by Dr. David Gibson & by David Gibson

Your feedback

click here

Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License

Your e-mail address:

Your message: