Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Diplostomida > Suborder Diplostomata > Superfamily Schistosomatoidea

Aporocotylidae Odhner, 1912

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Aporocotyle Odhner, 1900
Cardicola Short, 1953
Paradeontacylix McIntosh, 1934
Skoulekia Alama-Bermejo, Montero, Raga & Holzer, 2011

Literature

original description	Odhner, T. (1912). Zum natürlichen System der digenen Trematoden. V. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 41: 54-71.
redescription	Warren, M. B.; Bullard, S. A. (2023). Systematic revision of the fish blood flukes with diagnoses of Chimaerohemecidae Yamaguti, 1971, Acipensericolidae n. fam., Sanguinicolidae Poche, 1926, Elopicolidae n. fam., and Aporocotylidae Odhner, 1912. Journal of Parasitology. 109(4) : 401-418.
status source	Bullard, S.; Jensen, K.; Overstreet, R. (2009). Historical account of the two family-group names in use for the single accepted family comprising the “fish blood flukes”. Acta Parasitologica. 54(1).
taxonomy source	Warren, M. B.; Bullard, S. A. (2023). Systematic revision of the fish blood flukes with diagnoses of Chimaerohemecidae Yamaguti, 1971, Acipensericolidae n. fam., Sanguinicolidae Poche, 1926, Elopicolidae n. fam., and Aporocotylidae Odhner, 1912. Journal of Parasitology. 109(4) : 401-418.
identification resource	Smith, J. W. (2002). Family Sanguinicolidae von Graff, 1907. In: Gibson, D. I., Jones, A. & Bray, R. A. (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 1. Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 433–452.
identification resource	Skrjabin, K. I. (1951). Suborder Schistosomatata Skrjabin et Schulz, 1937. Osnovy Trematodologii. 5: 8–622. (In Russian).