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

Acanthotrema Travassos, 1928

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Acanthotrema armata LafuenteRoca & Carbonell, 2000

Literature

original description	Travassos, L. (1928). Nouveau trématode parasite de Laridae. Comptes Rendus des Seances de la Societe de Biologie, Paris. 99 (26): 884–885.
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	Lafuente, M.; Roca, V.; Carbonell, E. (2000). Description of Acanthotrema armata n. sp. (Trematoda: Heterophyidae) from Larus audouinii (Aves: Laridae), with an amended diagnosis of the genus Acanthotrema Travassos, 1928. Systematic Parasitology. 45(2): 131-134.
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.