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

Azygiidae Lühe, 1909

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Azygia Looss, 1899
Azygiinae Lühe, 1909

Literature

original description	Lühe, M. (1909). Parasitische Plattwürmer. I: Trematodes. Süsswasserfauna Deutschlands. 17, 1-217.
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	Gibson, D. I. & Bray, R. A. 1977. The Azygiidae, Hirudinellidae, Ptychogonimidae, Sclerodistomidae and Syncoeliidae of fishes from the north-east Atlantic. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoology) 32: 167–245.
redescription	Truong, N. T.; Dutton, H. R.; Netherlands, E. C.; Du Preez, L. H.;Jacobs, F. J.; Bullard, S. A. (2024). First Azygiid Reported from Africa or a Characiform Fish: Plenivitellinum kifi n. gen., n. sp. (Digenea: Azygiidae) Infecting the Gut of African Tigerfish, Hydrocynus vittatus Castelnau, 1861 (Characiformes: Alestidae) from the Kavango River. Acta Parasitologica.
taxonomy source	Manter, H. W. (1926). Some North American fish trematodes. Illinois Biological Monographs. 10, 7-138.
identification resource	Gibson, D. I.; Bray, R. A. (1979). The Hemiuroidea: terminology, systematics and evolution. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 36: 35-146.
identification resource	Gibson, D. I. (2002). Superfamily Azygioidea Lühe, 1909. In: Gibson, D.I., Jones, A. & Bray, R.A. [Eds]. Keys to the Trematoda. Vol. 1. Wallingford: CAB International. pp. 19–24.
identification resource	Skrjabin, K. I., Guschanskaja, L. H. (1958). Suborder Azygiata La Rue, 1957. Osnovy Trematodologii. 14, 667-819. (In Russian).