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

Bunocotylidae Dollfus, 1950

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Bunocotylinae Dollfus, 1950
Hysterolecithinae Yamaguti, 1958
Opisthadeninae Yamaguti, 1970

Literature

original description	Dollfus, R. P. (1950). Trematodes collected in the Belgian Congo by Professor Paul Brien (May-August 1937). Annales du Musee du Congo Belge. C. -Zoologie. 1(1), 1-136.
basis of record	Zdzitowiecki, K. (1997). Antarctic Digenea, parasites of fishes. Synopses of the Antarctic Benthos. Koeltz Scientific Books, Koenigstein, 156.
taxonomy source	Atopkin, D.; Nakao, M.; Besprozvannykh, V.; Ha, N.; Nguyen, H.; Sasaki, M. (2020). Morphological and molecular data for species of Lecithaster Lühe, 1901 and Hysterolecithoides Yamaguti, 1934 (Digenea: Lecithasteridae) from fish of East Asia and phylogenetic relationships within the Hemiuroidea Looss, 1899. Journal of Helminthology. 1-13.
taxonomy source	Sokolov, S. G.; Atopkin, D. M.; Urabe, M.; Gordeev, I. I. (2019). Phylogenetic analysis of the superfamily Hemiuroidea (Platyhelminthes, Neodermata: Trematoda) based on partial 28S rDNA sequences. Parasitology. 146 (5): 596-603.
identification resource	Gibson, D. I.; Bray, R. A. (1979). The Hemiuroidea: terminology, systematics and evolution. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 36: 35-146.