Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Diplostomida > Suborder Diplostomata > Superfamily Brachylaimoidea

Brachylaimidae Joyeux & Foley, 1930

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Brachylaima Dujardin, 1843
Ityogonimus Luhe, 1899
Postharmostomum Witenberg, 1923
Scaphiostomum Braun, 1901

Literature

original description	Joyeux, C. H.; Foley, H. (1930). Les helminthes de Meriones shawi shawi Rozet dans le nord de l'Algérie. Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France. 55 (5): 353–374.
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. (1948). Superfamily Fascioloidea Stiles et Goldberger 1910. Osnovy Trematodologii. 2: 7–336. (In Russian).
identification resource	Pojmanka, T. (2002). Family Brachylaimidae Joyeux & Foley, 1930. In: Gibson, D. I.; Jones, A; Bray, R. A. Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 1. Wallingford: CABI Publishing and the Natural History Museum, pp. 37–43.