Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Opisthorchiata > Superfamily Opisthorchioidea > Family Heterophyidae

Ascocotyle Looss, 1899

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Parascocotyle*	Stunkard & Haviland, 1924	synonym
*Phagicola*	Faust, 1920	synonym

Children

Ascocotyle branchialis Timon-David, 1961
Ascocotyle coleostoma (Looss, 1896) Looss, 1899
Ascocotyle italica Alessandrini, 1906
Ascocotyle longa Ransom, 1920
Ascocotyle minutus Looss, 1899
Ascocotyle septentrionalis (Van den Broek, 1967) Gustinelli, Caffara, Scaravelli, Fioravanti & Scholz, 2021
Ascocotyle sinoecum (Ciurea, 1933) Sogandares-Bernal & Lumsden, 1963

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	Gustinelli, A.; Caffara, M.; Scaravelli, D.; Fioravanti, M. L.; Scholz, T. (2021). The first new species of European Ascocotyle Looss, 1899 (Digenea: Heterophyidae) described in more than half a century. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife. 17: 327–334.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Hernández-Orts, J. S.; Georgieva, S.; Landete, D. N.; Scholz, T. (2019). Heterophyid trematodes (Digenea) from penguins: A new species of Ascocotyle Looss, 1899, first description of metacercaria of Ascocotyle (A.) patagoniensis Hernández-Orts et al. (2012), and first molecular data. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife. 8: 94-105.
taxonomy source	Sogandares-Bernal, F.; Lumsder, R. D. (1963). The generic status of the heterophyid trematodes of the Ascocotyle complex, including notes on the systematics and biology of Ascocotyle angrense Travassos, 1916. Journal of Parasitology. 49 (2): 264–274.
identification resource	Pearson, J. (2008). Family Heterophyidae Leiper, 1909. In: Bray, R. A.; Gibson, D. I.; Jones, A. (Eds.). Keys to the Trematoda. Vol. 3. Wallingford, CABI and Natural History Museum, pp. 113–141.
identification resource	Morozov, F. N. (1952). Trematode superfamily Heterophyoidea Faust, 1929. Skriabin K. I. Trematody zhivonykh i chekoveka (= Osnovy Trematodologii) [Trematodes of animals and humans. Fundamentals of trematodology]. 6: 152–615. (In Russian).