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

Microscaphidiidae Looss, 1900

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Angiodictyidae*	Looss, 1902	synonym

Children

Deuterobaris Looss, 1900
Microscaphidium Looss, 1900

Literature

original description	Looss, A. (1900). Nachträgliche Bemerkungen zu den Namen der von mir vorgeschlagenen Distomidengattungen. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 23: 601-608.
taxonomy source	Blair, D. (1986). A revision of the subfamily Microscaphidiinae (Platyhelminthes, Digenea, Microscaphidiidae) parasitic in marine turtles (Reptilia, Chelonia). Australian Journal of Zoology. 34 (2): 241–277.
taxonomy source	Groschaft, J. (1977). Microscaphidium caballeroi sp. nov. from a marine turtle (Chelonia mydas) and a revision of the subfamily Microscaphidiinae Looss, 1900 (Trematoda: Microscaphidiidae). Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Instituto de Biologia Publicaciones Especiales. 4: 169–176.
identification resource	Eduardo, S. L.; Diaz, J. L. (2008). Flukes of the family Microscaphidiidae Looss, 1900 (Trematoda: Digenea) from the Green Sea Turtle, Chelonia mydas L. (Reptilia: Chelonia) in the Philippines with description of three new species. Philippine Journal of Veterinary Medicine. 45(2), 75–85.
identification resource	Blair, D. (2005). Family Microscaphidiidae Looss, 1900. In: Jones, A., Bray, R. A. & Gibson, D. I., (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda, Volume 2. Wallingford: CABI Publishing and the Natural History Museum, pp.193–212.
identification resource	Skrjabin, K. I. (1949). Suborder Paramphistomatata (Szidat, 1936) Skrjabin et Schulz, 1937. Osnovy Trematodologii. 3: 5–619. (In Russian).