Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Cestoda > Subclass Nephroposticophora > Subclass Eucestoda > Order Trypanorhyncha > Suborder Trypanobatoida > Superfamily Tentacularioidea

Sphyriocephalidae Pintner, 1913

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Hepatoxylidae*	Dollfus, 1940	synonym

Children

Hepatoxylon Bosc, 1811
Heterosphyriocephalus Palm, 2004
Sphyriocephalus Pintner, 1913

Literature

basis of record	Bray, R.A. (2001). Cestoda, 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. 146-149
taxonomy source	Dallarés, S.; Carrassón, M.; Schaeffner, B. C. (2017). Revision of the family Sphyriocephalidae Pintner, 1913 (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha), with the description of Heterosphyriocephalus encarnae n. sp. and redescriptions of two species of Sphyriocephalus. Parasitology International. 66: 843-862.