Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Echinostomata > Superfamily Echinostomatoidea > Family Fasciolidae > Subfamily Fasciolinae > Genus Fasciola

Fasciola hepatica Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Fasciola*	Linnaeus, 1758 (sensu stricto)	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: leverbot

English: sheep liver fluke

German: Großer Leberegel

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
additional source	Ghosh, A.; Sreeraj, C. R. (2023). Fauna of India Checklist: Platyhelminthes. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. 49 pp.
additional source	Barker, S. C., Blair, D., Garrett, A. R., Cribb, T.H. (1993). Utility of the D1 domain of nuclear 28S rRNA for phylogenetic inference in the Digenea. Systematic Parasitology. 26: 181–188.
redescription	Skrjabin, K. I. (1948). Superfamily Fascioloidea Stiles et Goldberger 1910. Osnovy Trematodologii. 2: 7–336. (In Russian).
redescription	Ito, J. (1964). A monograph of cercariae in Japan and adjacent territories. Progress in Medical Parasitology in Japan. 1: 395-550.
redescription	Chakrabarti. S., Chatterjee, A. (2005). Trematodes of birds and mammals. State Fauna Series. Fauna of Andhra Pradesh, Invertebrates. 5: 1-98.
redescription	Mehra, H. R. (1980). Platyhelminthes Vol. I. Trematoda. The Fauna of Indian and the adjacent countries. Manager of Publications, Government of India. Delhi, 418 pp.
redescription	Lühe, M. (1909). Parasitische Plattwürmer. I: Trematodes. Süsswasserfauna Deutschlands. 17, 1-217.
redescription	Zdun, V. I. (1961). Trematode larvae in freshwater molluscs of Ukraine. Akademija Nauk Ukrainskoi RSR, Kiev: 144 pp. (In Ukrainian).