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

Acanthostomum Looss, 1899

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Acanthochasmus*	Looss, 1901	synonym

Children

Acanthostomum saoudi Hassan, Khidr & Abu Samak, 1990
Acanthostomum spiniceps (Looss, 1896) 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
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
identification resource	Miller, T. L.; Cribb, T. H. (2008). Family Cryptogonimidae Ward 1917. In: Bray, R. A., Gibson, D. I. & Jones, A. (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 3. Wallingford, CABI Publishing and the Natural History Museum. pp. 51–112.
identification resource	Morozov, F. N. (1955). Suborder Heterophyata Morosov, 1955. Osnovy Trematodologii. 10: 241-335. (In Russian).
identification resource	Khalil, L. F. (1963). On Acanthostomum gymnarchi (Dollfus, 1950) with notes on the genera .Acanthostomum Looss, 1899, Atrophecaecum Bhalerao, 1940, Gymnatotrema Morosov, 1955, and Haplocaecum Simha, 1958. Journal of Helminthology. 37: 207-214.