Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Monogenea > Subclass Polyopisthocotylea > Superorder Oligonchoinea > Order Mazocraeidea

Heteraxinidae Unnithan, 1957

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Cemocotylidae*	Price, 1962	synonym

Children

Cemocotylinae Price, 1962
Heteraxininae Unnithan, 1957

Literature

redescription	Mamaev, Yu. L. (1990). THE SYSTEMATICAL COMPOSITION OF HETERAXINIDAE AND OTHER ALLIED FAMLIES OF MONOGENEA. Folia Parasitologica. 37 :225 -230.
taxonomy source	Price, E. W. (1962). North American Monogenetic Trematodes. XI. The Family Heteraxinidae. The Journal of Parasitology. 48(3): 402-418.
identification resource	Montero, F. E.; Javier Aznar, F.; Fernandez, M.; Raga, J. A. (2003). Pseudoallencotyla gen. n., a new genus for Allencotyla pricei (Kritsky, Noble et Moser, 1978) (Monogenea: Heteraxinidae), with a key to genera of Heteraxininae. Folia Parasitologica. 50(1): 43-47.
identification resource	Price, E. W. (1962). North American Monogenetic Trematodes. XI. The Family Heteraxinidae. The Journal of Parasitology. 48(3): 402-418.