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

Metadena Linton, 1910

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Achoerus*	Vlasenko, 1931 nec Beklemischev, 1914	synonym

Children

Metadena caballeroi Nahhas & Krupin, 1977
Metadena depressa (Stossich, 1883) Janiszewska, 1953
Metadena pauli (Vlasenko, 1931) Yamaguti, 1958
Metadena phoceae Bartoli & Gibson, 2001

Literature

original description	Linton, E. (1910). Helminth fauna of the Dry Tortugas. II. Trematodes. Papers from the Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institute of Washington. 4: 11–98.
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	Manter, H.W. (1947). The digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of Tortugas. American Midland Naturalist. 38, 257–416.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Gibson, D.I. (1996) Guide to the parasites of Canadian fishes. Part IV. Trematoda. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 373 pp.
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. (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).