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

Pronocephalidae Looss, 1899

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Diaschistorchis Johnston, 1913
Notocotyloides Dollfus, 1966
Parapronocephalum Belopol'skaia, 1952
Pleurogonius Looss, 1901
Pyelosomum Looss, 1899

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
taxonomy source	Pérez Ponce de León, G.; Brooks, D. R. (1995). Phylogenetic Relationships of the Genera of the Pronocephalidae Looss, 1902 (Digenea: Paramphistomiformes). Journal of Parasitology. 81 (2): 267-277.
identification resource	Skrjabin, K. I. (1955). Suborder Pronocephalata Skrjabin, 1955. Osnovy Trematodologii. 10, 5–210. (In Russian).
identification resource	Blair, D. (2005). Family Pronocephalidae Looss, 1899. In: Jones, A., Bray, R. A & Gibson, D. I. (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda, Volume 2. Wallingford: CABI Publishing and the Natural History Museum, pp. 361–380.