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

Heterophyidae Leiper, 1909

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Acanthotrema Travassos, 1928
Ascocotyle Looss, 1899
Centrocestus Looss, 1899
Cercarioides Witenberg, 1929
Condylocotyla Pearson & Prevot, 1985
Euryhelmis Poche, 1926
Galactosomum Looss, 1899
Heterophyes Cobbold, 1866
Heterotestophyes Leonov, 1957
Knipowitschiatrema Issaitschikow, 1927
Macrotestophyes Varenov, 1963
Massaliatrema Dollfus & Timon-David, 1960
Metagonimus Katsurada, 1912
Pholeter Odhner, 1914
Ponticotrema Issaitschikoff, 1927
Pygidiopsis Looss, 1907
Scaphanocephalus Jägerskiöld, 1903
Stictodora Looss, 1899
Tauridiana Issaitschikoff, 1925
Tetracladium Kulachkova, 1954

Literature

original description	Leiper, R. T. (1909). London School of Tropical Medicine. Report of helminthologist for six months ending 30th April, 1908. Report of the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund for the year 1908. 35–39.
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	Choudhary, K.; Verma, A. K.; Swaroop, S.; Agrawal, N. (2015). A review on the molecular characterization of digenean parasites using molecular markers with special reference to ITS region. Helminthologia. 52(3): 167-187.
additional source	Cable, R. M.; Connor, R. S.; Balling, J. W. (1960). Digenetic trematodes of Puerto Rican shore birds. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. 17 (2): 187–255.
taxonomy source	Nasir, P; Diaz, M. T. (1971). Studies on freshwater larval trematodes. 27. Partial life cycle of Caiguiria anterouteria gen. n., sp. n., subfam. n. (Trematoda: Digenea). Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington. 38 (1): 21–23.
taxonomy source	Thaenkham, U.; Blair, D.; Nawa, Y.; Waikagul, J. (2012). Families Opisthorchiidae and Heterophyidae: Are they distinct?. Parasitology International. 61(1): 90-93.
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).