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

Cardicola Short, 1953

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Cardicola auratus Holzer, Montero, Repullés, Sitjà-Bobadilla, Alvarez-Pellitero, Zarza & Raga, 2008
Cardicola forsteri Cribb, Daintith & Munday, 2000
Cardicola opisthorchis Ogawa, Ishimaru, Shirakashi, Takami & Grabner, 2011
Cardicola orientalis Ogawa, Tanaka, Sugihara & Takami, 2010

Literature

original description	Short, R. B. (1953). A new blood fluke, Cardicola laruei n. g., n. sp., (Aporocotylidae) from marine fishes. Journal of Parasitology. 39(3): 304-309.
additional source	Nolan, M. J.; Cribb, T. H. (2006). Cardicola Short, 1953 and Braya n. gen. (Digenea : Sanguinicolidae) from five families of tropical Indo-Pacific fishes. Zootaxa. 1265: 3-80.
additional source	Polinski, M.; Hamilton, D. B.; Nowak, B.; Bridle, A. (2013). SYBR, TaqMan, or both: Highly sensitive, non-invasive detection of Cardicola blood fluke species in Southern Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus maccoyii). Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 191 (1): 7–15.
redescription	Yong, R. Q.-Y.; Cribb, T. H.; Cutmore, S. C. (2021). Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the problematic genus Cardicola (Digenea: Aporocotylidae) indicates massive polyphyly, dramatic morphological radiation and host-switching. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 164: 107290.
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.