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

Brachycoeliidae Looss, 1899

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Brachycoelium Dujardin, 1845
Cymatocarpus 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	Pojmańska, T. (2008). Family Brachycoeliidae Looss, 1899. In: Bray, R. A.; Gibson, D. I.; Jones, A. (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 3. Wallingford, CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 219–223.
identification resource	Skrjabin, K. I. (1963). Family Brachycoeliidae Johnston, 1912. Osnovy Trematodologii. 21: 6–46. (In Russian).