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

Mesometridae Poche, 1926

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Centroderma Lühe, 1901
Elstia Bray, 1984
Mesometra Lühe, 1901
Wardula Poche, 1926

Literature

original description	Poche, F. (1926). Das System der Platodaria. Archiv für naturgeschichte. Abteilung A. 91: 1-458.
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	Jousson, O., Bartoli, P., Pawlowski, J. (1998). Molecular phylogeny of Mesometridae (Trematoda, Digenea) with its relation to morphological changes in parasites. Parasite. 5: 365–369.
taxonomy source	Paggi, L.; Orecchia, P. (1964). I monostomi parassiti di Box salpa, Revisione della famiglia Mesometridae, Poche. 1926. Parassitologia. 6: 283–311.
identification resource	Skrjabin, K. I. (1963). Family Mesometridae Poche, 1925. Osnovy Trematodologii. 21: 65–80. (In Russian).
identification resource	Jones, A.; Blair, D. (2005). Family Mesometridae Poche, 1926. 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. 213–219.