Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Hemiurata > Superfamily Hemiuroidea > Family Hemiuridae

Plerurinae Gibson & Bray, 1979

Rank: Subfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Adinosoma Manter, 1947
Dinosoma Manter, 1934
Plerurus Looss, 1907
Synaptobothrium von Linstow, 1904

Literature

original description	Gibson, D. I.; Bray, R. A. (1979). The Hemiuroidea: terminology, systematics and evolution. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 36: 35-146.
additional source	Martin, S. B.; De Silva, M.; Pathirana, E.; Rajapakse, R. (2023). Polyphyly of the Dinurinae Looss, 1907 (Digenea: Hemiuridae) and resurrection of the Mecoderinae Skrjabin & Guschanskaja, 1954 based on novel collection of Tubulovesicula laticaudi Parukhin, 1969 from marine elapid snakes in Sri Lanka. Parasitology International. 97: 102776.
taxonomy source	Bray, R. A. (1996). Merlucciotrema praeclarum (Manter, 1934) (Digenea: Hemiuridae) redescribed from myctophiform and gadiform fishes of the North Atlantic. Systematic Parasitology. 33(2): 135-141.
identification resource	Gibson, D.I. (2002). Family Hemiuridae Looss, 1899. In: Gibson D. I., Jones, A. & Bray, R. A. (eds),. Keys to the Trematoda, vol. 1. Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 305–340.