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

Hemiuridae Looss, 1899

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Aphanurinae Skrjabin & Guschanskaja, 1954
Dinurinae Looss, 1907
Elytrophallinae Skrjabin & Guschanskaja, 1955
Glomericirrinae Yamaguti, 1958
Hemiurinae Looss, 1899
Lecithochiriinae Lühe, 1901
Plerurinae Gibson & Bray, 1979
Robinia Pankov, Webster, Blasco-Costa, Gibson, Littlewood, Balbuena & Kostadinova, 2006

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

additional source

Atopkin, D.; Besprozvannykh, V.; Yu Beloded, A.; Ngo, H.; Ha, N.; Tang, N. (2017). Phylogenetic relationships of Hemiuridae (Digenea: Hemiuroidea) with new morphometric and molecular data of Aphanurus mugilis Tang, 1981 (Aphanurinae) from mullet fish of Vietnam. Parasitology International.

additional source

Looss, A. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Distomenfamilie Hemiuridae. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 31, 585–620.

additional source

Costello, M.J., C. Emblow & R. White (EdS.). (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. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France. 463 pp.

taxonomy source

Sokolov, S. G.; Atopkin, D. M.; Urabe, M.; Gordeev, I. I. (2019). Phylogenetic analysis of the superfamily Hemiuroidea (Platyhelminthes, Neodermata: Trematoda) based on partial 28S rDNA sequences. Parasitology. 146 (5): 596-603.

taxonomy source

Gibson, D. I.; Bray, R. A. (1986). The Hemiuridae (Digenea) of fishes from the northeast Atlantic. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series. 51, 1-125.

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

Skrjabin, K. I., Guschanskaja, L. K. (1954). Suborder Hemiurata (Markevitsch) Skrjabin & Guschanskaja, 1954. First part. Osnovy Trematodologii. 9, 225–653. (In Russian).

identification resource

Gibson, D.I. (2002). Family Hemiuridae Looss, 1899. In: Gibson D. I., Jones, A. & Bray, R. A. (eds),. Keys to the Trematoda, vol. 1. Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 305–340.

identification resource

Chauhan, B. S. (1953). Studies on the trematode fauna of India. Part iv. Subclass Digenea (Prosostomata). (A revision of Hemiuroidea from the Indian Region). Records of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 51 (2): 289–393.

biology source

Yamaguti S. (1975). A synoptical review of life histories of digenetic trematodes of vertebrates with special reference to the morphology of their larval forms. Tokyo, Keigaku Publishing Co. pp. LXI I + 590 + 219 plates.

biology source

Dollfus, R.P. (1923). Remarques sur le cycle évolutif des hémiurides. Annals de Parasitologie. 1(4):345-351.

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Hemiuridae Looss, 1899. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=108471

Dr. David Gibson. Hemiuridae Looss, 1899. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/71c10017-eb07-490c-891a-b004960cc266

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Occurrence

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Environment


marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

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