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

Spirorchiidae Stunkard, 1921

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Spirhapalum Ejsmont, 1927

Literature

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
redescription	Bullard, S. A.; Dutton, H. R. (2022). Resolving the Paraphyletic Turtle Blood Flukes: Revision of Spirorchiidae Stunkard, 1921 and Proposal of Carettacolidae Yamaguti, 1958, Hapalotrematidae (Stunkard, 1921) Poche, 1926, Baracktrematidae N. Fam., Plattidae N. Fam., and Atamatamidae N. Fam. Journal of Parasitology. 108(6).
taxonomy source	Bullard, S. A.; Dutton, H. R. (2022). Resolving the Paraphyletic Turtle Blood Flukes: Revision of Spirorchiidae Stunkard, 1921 and Proposal of Carettacolidae Yamaguti, 1958, Hapalotrematidae (Stunkard, 1921) Poche, 1926, Baracktrematidae N. Fam., Plattidae N. Fam., and Atamatamidae N. Fam. Journal of Parasitology. 108(6).
taxonomy source	Bullard, S. A.; Roberts, J. R.; Warren, M. B.; Dutton, H. R.; Whelan, N. V.; Ruiz, C. F.; Platt, T. R.; Tkach, V. V.; Brant, S. V.; Halanych, K. M. (2019). Neotropical Turtle Blood Flukes: Two New Genera and Species from the Amazon River Basin with a Key to Genera and Comments on a Marine-Derived Parasite Lineage in South America. Journal of Parasitology. 105(4): 497.
identification resource	Platt, T. R. (2002). Family Spirorchiidae Stunkard, 1921. In: Gibson, D. I., Jones, A. & Bray, R. A. (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 1. Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 453–467.
identification resource	Bullard, S. A.; Roberts, J. R.; Warren, M. B.; Dutton, H. R.; Whelan, N. V.; Ruiz, C. F.; Platt, T. R.; Tkach, V. V.; Brant, S. V.; Halanych, K. M. (2019). Neotropical Turtle Blood Flukes: Two New Genera and Species from the Amazon River Basin with a Key to Genera and Comments on a Marine-Derived Parasite Lineage in South America. Journal of Parasitology. 105(4): 497.
identification resource	Azimov, D. A. (1975). Schistosomatids of animals and man. Izdatesl'stvo FAN Uzbekskoi SSR, Taschkent, 152 pp. (In Russian).