ChildrenAcanthotrema Travassos, 1928 Ascocotyle Looss, 1899 Centrocestus Looss, 1899 Cercarioides Witenberg, 1929 Condylocotyla Pearson & Prevot, 1985 Euryhelmis Poche, 1926 Galactosomum Looss, 1899 Heterophyes Cobbold, 1866 Heterotestophyes Leonov, 1957 Knipowitschiatrema Issaitschikow, 1927 Macrotestophyes Varenov, 1963 Massaliatrema Dollfus & Timon-David, 1960 Metagonimus Katsurada, 1912 Pholeter Odhner, 1914 Ponticotrema Issaitschikoff, 1927 Pygidiopsis Looss, 1907 Scaphanocephalus Jägerskiöld, 1903 Stictodora Looss, 1899 Tauridiana Issaitschikoff, 1925 Tetracladium Kulachkova, 1954
Literatureoriginal description | Leiper, R. T. (1909). London School of Tropical Medicine. Report of helminthologist for six months ending 30th April, 1908. Report of the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund for the year 1908. 35–39. | 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. | additional source | Cable, R. M.; Connor, R. S.; Balling, J. W. (1960). Digenetic trematodes of Puerto Rican shore birds. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. 17 (2): 187–255. | taxonomy source | Nasir, P; Diaz, M. T. (1971). Studies on freshwater larval trematodes. 27. Partial life cycle of Caiguiria anterouteria gen. n., sp. n., subfam. n. (Trematoda: Digenea). Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington. 38 (1): 21–23. | taxonomy source | Thaenkham, U.; Blair, D.; Nawa, Y.; Waikagul, J. (2012). Families Opisthorchiidae and Heterophyidae: Are they distinct?. Parasitology International. 61(1): 90-93. | identification resource | Pearson, J. (2008). Family Heterophyidae Leiper, 1909. In: Bray, R. A.; Gibson, D. I.; Jones, A. (Eds.). Keys to the Trematoda. Vol. 3. Wallingford, CABI and Natural History Museum, pp. 113–141. | 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). |
 
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CitationWoRMS (2025). Heterophyidae Leiper, 1909. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=108441
Dr. David Gibson. Heterophyidae Leiper, 1909. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/4779408e-1f45-4d04-9a37-40834bd07f9eImage
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